Imagine if the Rosetta Stone was digital and all ancient text inscribed there was rendered unreadable due to some for of copyright claim and following takedown. Today we would likely know squat about ancient Egyptian language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone

Copyright laws are a good thing, but when they become abusive, then they do a lot more damage than having no copyright laws at all.

Imagine purposefully erasing your own tiny slice of history. Congratulations, nobody cares about you and nobody will ever again.

That's why you don't use YouTube and instead use a decentralized platform.

This belongs to archive.org not youtube.

I agree with that sentiment for sure.

No. Ignoring copyright law and people's desires for their own content, isn't the solution.

I suspect that using a platform where there isn't any way to profit at all is a better solution. But in this case, the CR owners have probably been burned for years and just don't want to have any more discussion around the matter. It is easier to just say no.

Finding solutions that make it harder to say no seems like a better goal... of course that probably means paying them.

> Ignoring copyright law and people's desires for their own content, isn't the solution.

If this were actually true, then all these other platforms wouldn't exist.