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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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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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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…
The Untold Story of why YouTube is removing Community Contributions; YouTube CC History pt. 4
In the later half of the 2010’s YouTube began putting a greater emphasis on international accessibility over accessibility for the deaf. This change in policy, alienated the Deaf Community who began to criticize the increasing inadequacy of closed captions on the website. The ensuing events would bring about the rise and fall of the feature known as community contributions.
The History of Invidious
Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube. It lets you load YouTube videos in a lightweight, open source, free software interface with no ads and without your browser loading Google…
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Invidious Shutting Down
So, you remember when we wrote about annotations? Well, the site we have them stored on is going down, namely invidious, the open-source YouTube frontend. Omar, the person running it,…
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Adobe’s “End of Life” Killswitch for Flash Player
3 years ago Adobe announced their plans to end their development and support for Flash Player on December 31, 2020, the "end of life" date. More recently they've authored an…