Last year, I saw something similar to this coming, so I downloaded Youtube-DL, which is a system that MANY YouTube related tools base their code on, and set to work archiving many of my favorite channels.
In the year that I've done this, it has already proven to be invaluable as many wrong-think videos, or older videos that have become wrong-think have been pulled, and I may be the only person with an archived copy of them.
The Tutorial above does a good job of bringing you step by step through the process. It takes a little effort, but what are you, some kind of freeloader?
Back up what you want to keep access to now. Do the most important things first, depending on your internet and the quality level you download the files in, it takes a lot of storage space and time to back up the content, so start with the most important or endangered videos.
Last year, I saw something similar to this coming, so I downloaded Youtube-DL, which is a system that MANY YouTube related tools base their code on, and set to work archiving many of my favorite channels.
In the year that I've done this, it has already proven to be invaluable as many wrong-think videos, or older videos that have become wrong-think have been pulled, and I may be the only person with an archived copy of them.
The Tutorial above does a good job of bringing you step by step through the process. It takes a little effort, but what are you, some kind of freeloader?
Back up what you want to keep access to now. Do the most important things first, depending on your internet and the quality level you download the files in, it takes a lot of storage space and time to back up the content, so start with the most important or endangered videos.