[1]https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ this is also a handy tool as well for downloading videos for archival purposes, just in case youtube goes down, does a wipe, whatever. Having been going through my writings through the decades online and putting them on [2]http://icopiedyou.com - the amount of things that were extremely difficult to retrieve were numerous.* There are a few things nearly impossible; I'm currently finding out if there are backup tapes of LISTSERVs from the early 1990s.* But as I've always been a hoarder by nature, the stuff that vanished from the web and ftp sites I had a lot of it on Floppies, which I transferred to zip disks at one point, then to an external hard drive when I acquired one of those and FINALLY was able to get it BACK up to the 'net. So I suppose, I do believe in The Cloud conceptually but not so much any individual corporate or University or private entity to maintain it for me. Rather, what I believe in is the Internet in general; redundancy, various forms of data expression.* If I have something in a PDF in one place, I should have a TeX formatted copy somewhere else. I should make it into a video with text-to-speech as well. Make a few animatedgifs with it; make them go viral so there's many copies. It's my own 'thing' though; not everybody is concerned with data loss; but knowing how people are (and all of these things are run by people), all it takes is one person to say, "Oh, that service?* Kill it. It's old now.* (aol, geocities, myspace, various blogging platforms through the decades, etc) References Visible links 1. https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ 2. http://icopiedyou.com/