Posted inEditorial
YouTube was made for Reuploads
YouTube is a platform and a community which live off of reuploads. With the privating of old unlisted videos, let's re-examine the relationship between YouTube and reuploading.
Posted inNews
A Correction on MediaFire’s Account Removal Policy
We had reported MediaFire would be purging inactive users in January. At the time we had urged readers to log into their Mediafire accounts to reaffirm their activity and to consider looking into alternative file hosting services. On this, we would like to issue a correction...
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Google Cuts Free Unlimited Storage in Photos, Drive
Google is ending free storage on some of their services, to promote their new paid Google One cloud storage service.
A New Breed of Digital Archiving and Preservation
In honor of Digital Preservation Day here are the three As we need more than ever: Adaptability, Acceptance and Acknowledgment.
Posted inTips
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...
Posted inCommunity Spotlight
Puyo Puyo Preservers!
Puyo Puyo Preservation Place is an archive team dedicated to one very particular series: Puyo Puyo. ...which probably could have been guessed. Now, they aren't just uploading the games online…
Posted inCommunity Spotlight
Community Spotlight: IIPC
The International Internet Preservation Consortium is an organization dedicated to the preservation of historically and culturally significant websites.
Posted inCommunity Spotlight
Community Spotlight: Lost Media Wiki
Do you ever recall watching something on TV which was aired once and never again? Or perhaps playing an obscure video game, which no one else seems to know about? These are symptoms of Lost Media, media which is no longer available due to all known copies of it having been destroyed, damaged, rotting in storage or outright lost...
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Community Spotlight: r/DataHoarder
r/DataHoarder is perhaps one of the largest data hoarding groups out there. Once a humble subreddit, it now hosts over 200 thousand members!
Posted inArticles
Game Preservation Basics
Okay, so this is a subject admittedly fed to us from the overlords partners at Gaming Alexandria. But it's a neat one, so here we go! Game preservation isn't just…