Twitch.tv recently announced that they would be deleting petabytes of data in not too many days. Well, the Archive Team has decided to save many of them. The problem, the final site of the videos is the Internet Archive and they need plenty of room to store them on and that costs money. So donate at http://archive.org/donate or fire up your Warrior to help. Also if you are an owner of a big channel, let the Archive Team know if you already have videos to avoid a duplication of effort.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Sunday August 10 2014, @01:45PM
Are they filtering out material copyrighted by someone other than the poster? If so, it'll probably all fit on one, maybe two, DVDs. Only slightly kidding. I do remember reading an article along the line of they were at one point the dominant streaming platform for the "Stargate" TV series, with estimates they were shipping more bits of "Stargate" than all the other (legit) streaming services combined. Donno how true that was, but I remember reading it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 11 2014, @06:41AM
There are many who record videos of computer games as they play them and upload them to twitch.
e.g. http://www.twitch.tv/syncfin/b/549184291 [twitch.tv]
http://www.twitch.tv/aaakeen/c/4396159 [twitch.tv]
http://www.twitch.tv/sidestrafe [twitch.tv]
http://www.twitch.tv/trixisalivetv/b/340749263 [twitch.tv]
So you'd need far far more than two DVDs or even two blu-rays.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 10 2014, @02:35PM
IA doesn't give a flying fsck about copyright
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 10 2014, @04:13PM
IA doesn't give a flying fsck about copyright
What would give you a crazy idea like that?
https://archive.org/details/software [archive.org]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday August 10 2014, @07:41PM
IA can back up first and worry about copyright later. Their first mission is preservation.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 10 2014, @07:11PM
(Score: 1) by rliegh on Sunday August 10 2014, @11:20PM
archive.org's boneheaded and destructive blind aherence to robots.txt (deleting the ENTIRE history of a site affected by robots.txt) demonstrates the problem with this.
One gently-worded IP request and we'll be directly back where we started.
So we should care why, exactly?
I just tell 'em the truth and they think it's trolling!
(Score: 2) by Popeidol on Monday August 11 2014, @06:14AM
From the archive.org FAQ [archive.org]: If a web site owner decides he / she prefers not to have a web crawler visiting his / her files and sets up robots.txt on the site, the Alexa crawlers will stop visiting those files and will make unavailable all files previously gathered from that site.
They mention nothing about deleting previously gathered data, merely making it unavailable. I'm guessing if the robots.txt file becomes more permissive again in the future all historic data will magically reappear.
(Score: 1) by rliegh on Monday August 11 2014, @10:35AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_difference
I'm guessing that sightings of anal-originating air-bound monkeys will be more likely than that...
I just tell 'em the truth and they think it's trolling!