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Originally Posted by pittendrigh
Complaints about "link rot" to youtube are common. Solutions will evolve.
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Link Rot is an extremely large problem, especially with the insane ramp-up of censorship happening lately.
Book I worked on
just last year was a compilation of articles all written in 2020 (think motivational/young-entrepreneurship book).
They linked to multiple Youtube videos per chapter... and nearly half the videos were already broken due to:
- account takedowns
- copyright strikes
Not to mention Youtube's ridiculous must-log-into-an-account because "adult video" nonsense they've been pushing recently.
(A few months back, I wanted to check out a movie trailer. You know, the ones
anyone with a TV sees during commercial breaks? ADULT! But I can watch Trailer #2 and Trailer #3 with no account fine... Trailer #1 must've just been too dangerous!)
And now, they're even purging "bad things" like:
- Reverse engineering
- Guy who repairs old TVs? Gone.
- "Hacking" videos
- News clips
- Fair Use? We "own" that 30 seconds. Gone.
- And how dare you show a thing we said 1 month ago that contradicts what we just told you yesterday... MISINFORMATION! Gone.
- Scientific debate
- You speak against a word on the naughty list? Gone.
You don't open up a paper book, then have half the material just disappeared into thin air.
(Although there
are art books that cost hundreds of dollars with blank spots where images WOULD be...)
Ebooks should be built to last.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
The last post, in this thread, when it was alive, was me--9 years ago. This isn't necro-posting; it's Zombification posting.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
And I have yet to have a reader--not even ONE--tell me that they want video in eBooks. Not one.
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It's the future of ebooks! (/sarcasm)