Don Giller

Mass deletions on sites like MySpace are a good reminder that, if a website you don't own is the only place where your creative work exists, you better have a back-up.

Large media companies exist to serve shareholder interest, not the public's. Case in point: the thousands of films + TV episodes that exist in studio vaults that we will likely never see again — simply because they won't generate enough profit to make it worthwhile.

For 30 years, VCR owners privately archived tons of content rights holders never saw fit to legitimately distribute. If not for #YouTube postings, that stuff would be lost forever. Now that we've "evolved" to a no-hard-copy-recordings model, who will save the next 30 years?

I've seen things on youtube I never would have seen in a million years, and things I never would have known about.

Same here. And most of what's there wouldn't be there without some individual taking the time and trouble to do it.

Yup. like @thedonz5 he's been digitizing all the NBC Letterman shows. Which is my favorite show of all time. He has a youtube channel with the results of his hard work.