Apple Kills Fan's Long-Time Archive of WWDC Videos on YouTube

'An Apple archivist has had his YouTube account disabled after Apple filed multiple takedown requests against his account,' reports the blog Apple Insider:

Brendan Shanks, owner of the Apple WWDC Videos channel on YouTube, tweeted that Apple had filed a series of copyright removal requests against his channel. The videos in question were decades-old recordings of WWDC events.

'I still have all the original files (and descriptions, which were a lot of work!), and I'll be moving things over to the Internet Archive,' Shanks posted on Twitter. 'It'll take time though, and unfortunately videos get a lot less visibility when you're not on YouTube.

'I wasn't super surprised this happened (there were a few takedowns a couple years ago),' Shanks mused in an earlier tweet. 'I'm honestly more annoyed that it wiped out my personal YoutTube account and even YouTube TV, which I was just billed real money for.

'A cease and desist in the mail would be much friendlier.'

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