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If even one person sees that comment and pulls their content out of the google ecosystem, then the comment was helpful.

Run this:

youtube-dl https://youtube.com/c/MyChannel

and have a snack while it finishes. You'll thank yourself later.

[kodt]

Should not creators already have local copies of videos they upload to YouTube?

[Ekaros]

They should. And if they don't it is clear the video have no future value for them. So why should it have for anyone else?

[sodality2]

I know plenty of people who say, "Well, it's on YouTube, it's not gonna shut down any time soon" so they delete their local copies, unfortunately