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We Just Rescued Thousands of Unpublished YouTube Captions
YouTube recently removed their community contributions feature, so we collected as many unpublished caption drafts as we possibly could...
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The RIAA issues youtube-dl a DMCA takedown
The RIAA has issued a DMCA takedown for youtube-dl, an open-source utility for downloading videos from websites.
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Community Spotlight: Dead Game News
Dead Game News (DGN) is a group dedicated to reporting games which are no longer available to consumers, or which are under the risk of becoming unavailable. Games that are dying or dead, as it were.
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October Status Update on the Save Yahoo Groups! Project
Last Winter when shut down Yahoo Groups there was a major project to rescue data, lead by Archive Team and fandoms who traced their origins to Yahoo Groups. So let's talk about what has transpired since...
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YouTube is hiding Attributions to Fan-Captioners and Translators who wanted to be credited
YouTube no longer lists captioners and translators in the video description, hiding the names of these diligent authors who had asked to be credited...
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Ready for Takeoff: Hit Save!
A new NPO by the name of Hit Save! is working to help preserve old games and systems from all around the world!
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[Obsoleted] YouTube removed community translations, but there is a workaround!
Even with YouTube having disabled community contributions, there is a workaround you can use to continue to add new translations on videos!
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Why Your CD Player isn’t a good place to store CDs
A decade or two ago, there was a debate on whether or not it was safe to leave a disk inside of the CD player. Back then if you left your disk in the player it was a matter of a few weeks, now though it might be a matter of years...
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Shutdown September: Tales from Websites Shutting Down Across the Interwebs
At the turn of the decade we find ourselves on the verge of a new era, albeit a precarious one. Waning is the age of websites, where there once was…
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Help Archive YouTube’s Community Contributions!
YouTube is removing their community contributions feature on September 28. In case you haven't already heard, that's the feature which allows viewers to add captions/subtitles, translated titles and video descriptions…