[imiric]

On the contrary. Instead of everyone grabbing everything, each person would only archive what's important to them. This not only distributes the workload naturally, but serves as an implicit filter of content people find enjoyable and would actually watch, rather than archiving content nobody cares about.

But this is all hypothetical. We don't need a global YouTube archive. We need to stop using it altogether, and replace it with decentralized services. In the meantime, the existing personal archiving solutions work well.