[jayflux]

In a speed running context, those saying “the streamers just need to save their best content and ditch the rest”.

I think this works if we’re assuming all those world record holders are still active, I can imagine many have gone on to other things or haven’t logged into their account in years.

So it will certainly need to be a community effort to try and preserve some historic runs done over the years. I don’t even know if footage can be archived if not owned by the original streamer

[sjsdaiuasgdia]

Fundamentally, you should have multiple copies of any data you really want to keep. Those copies should be spread across multiple storage media and physical locations. Optimally, you retain direct control of some subset of the copies.

Disasters happen. Even in absence of this policy change, what would the community do if weather, fire, malicious actors, etc caused some massive failure that resulted in substantial data loss for Twitch? No warning, no time window, it's just gone?

Events like these, where it's not sudden and complete loss, are great reminders to actually protect data you think is worth protecting. Twitch is one "copy" and not one that is directly controlled by the creator.

As to archival options when the original creator is no longer available for whatever reason, there's always the option of screen recording. This will be somewhat lossy versus the original video, but it works.

[crtasm]

yt-dlp for downloading - no need to screen record