[soraminazuki]

I don't think that's a complete answer though. The article lists ContentID as the major reason videos get deleted, meaning that copyright trolls could go after IA if they want to. What we desperately need is copyright law reform.

[bshipp]

I'm not 100% positive, but I recall a conversation we had on TheEye a while back with some IA reps and they simply can't archive YouTube. I recall a private project to archive just the video Metadata ended up in the hundreds of Terabytes. The videos themselves must be a gargantuan collection. Most YouTube archiving thus far is pretty much done and maintained by private individuals.

[Wowfunhappy]

The Internet Archive has a lot of stuff they don’t make available over the internet.

A couple of months ago, they sent me a thumb drive of some stuff I requested (for a nominal processing fee).

[the_biot]

I'm surprised to hear that, what's the point of keeping stuff they don't make available? What sort of stuff is this?

[Wowfunhappy]

Well, they do make it available, just not over the internet, I assume for legal reasons.

In my case it was some TV footage broadcast on the evening of September 10, 2001.