a TorrentFreak article got me spooked so I fired up the ol’ yt-dlp. Got the entire channel, including comments, description metadata, and thumbnail images.
A significant number of videos were actually unavailable because of an odd YouTube bug where 15+ year old videos were listed as “currently being processed”. I may re-run this later (since I ran it in archive file mode) to get the missing videos, as it seems there may be about 300 out of 4911 videos missing.
Nah. IA doesn’t need to deal with this volume of shit and they already have enough of a hard time dealing with copyright trolls.
If this channel is impacted in the future, I’ll probably put out a few torrents with the videos and post them here.