Is stuff online worth saving?

There is a wealth of live performances on youtube that individuals have uploaded and that likely violate mpaa copyright crap.

IMO, this content is of high cultural value and I fear it won’t be long that the goog suffers us to watch “their” content without infecting it with ads.

I wish there was an easier way to self host this content with a way to organize and browse using tags.

5 years ago I was working on a semi-novel crowdfunding platform that relied on video presentations. First iteration we used the YouTube API because hosting our own video seemed daunting and that worked fine for a bit. Over time we started to run into limits/errors/interruptions/audits at inconvenient times until one weekend I was like “screw it, let’s find out what the problems of self transcoding and hosting are.” Spent some time learning to use ffmpeg and throwing the results on our static resource pile. Tagging was a fairly straightforward lift. Honestly worked better than I’d have anticipated and was much less hassle. I’m sure we would have hit the problems if we’d reached a critical scaling point buuut that didn’t happen inside our year or so of having clients.