This channel is being shut down at the end of the year. I started this channel as a place to upload video transcoding and scaling experiments, and thought people would be interested in the results. A secondary reason was to intentionally probe and poke holes in YouTube's content ID system and to see what was possible to get away with. Both missions were successful.
However, because I only upload copyrighted content to this channel, I can never monetize it, and worse, I can get penalized for it. I run another channel that is all original content that I do monetize, and if my activity here could get that legit channel shut down, it would be utterly devastating. So, I plan on removing the channel and the associated email address attached to it at the end of this year. I have used VPNs, throwaway accounts, and cookie-less browsers, but I have it on good authority that Google can still link this channel to my legitimate one, so I am sacrificing this channel so that I don't have to look over my back for the rest of this journey.
Thanks for all of the kind comments over the years; I'm glad I could keep some pop culture alive. If you want to download any of this content before the channel disappears in 23 days, grab github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp and leech to your heart's content. Feel free to upload to archive.org, as I won't be doing so.
Generation X Video Archive
This channel is being shut down at the end of the year. I started this channel as a place to upload video transcoding and scaling experiments, and thought people would be interested in the results. A secondary reason was to intentionally probe and poke holes in YouTube's content ID system and to see what was possible to get away with. Both missions were successful.
However, because I only upload copyrighted content to this channel, I can never monetize it, and worse, I can get penalized for it. I run another channel that is all original content that I do monetize, and if my activity here could get that legit channel shut down, it would be utterly devastating. So, I plan on removing the channel and the associated email address attached to it at the end of this year. I have used VPNs, throwaway accounts, and cookie-less browsers, but I have it on good authority that Google can still link this channel to my legitimate one, so I am sacrificing this channel so that I don't have to look over my back for the rest of this journey.
Thanks for all of the kind comments over the years; I'm glad I could keep some pop culture alive. If you want to download any of this content before the channel disappears in 23 days, grab github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp and leech to your heart's content. Feel free to upload to archive.org, as I won't be doing so.
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