06-05-2020, 05:20 PM
I believe the reason for the need for archiving is because of negative experiences from the past.
Sites like vid.me, KAT stayed for some time and then disappeared to point of no return. Many people might have spend years of building stuff on these sites, then to see it gone. Sometimes without a prior notice. Sometimes because of the owners and sometimes because of DMCA takedowns.
As a website providing files from protected works, it is even more vurnerable to extinction. Thousands of users spent years making games in Game Maker and then uploading them to their website yoyo.gamemaker.com, if it wasn't for Wayback Machine, it would be gone from the majority likely yet. Some of these games were viewed as a joke by their creators by some years passing while some others might have pulled their life masterpiece on a site like that. They might be in the unpopular territory where barely anyone plays them, though there's a chance some hidden gems would be found decades after publication just like it works with works of geniuses. But if the site would be gone there ain't such probability.
So that's why so many people obsess over archiving, to some extent, maybe yet..
Sites like vid.me, KAT stayed for some time and then disappeared to point of no return. Many people might have spend years of building stuff on these sites, then to see it gone. Sometimes without a prior notice. Sometimes because of the owners and sometimes because of DMCA takedowns.
As a website providing files from protected works, it is even more vurnerable to extinction. Thousands of users spent years making games in Game Maker and then uploading them to their website yoyo.gamemaker.com, if it wasn't for Wayback Machine, it would be gone from the majority likely yet. Some of these games were viewed as a joke by their creators by some years passing while some others might have pulled their life masterpiece on a site like that. They might be in the unpopular territory where barely anyone plays them, though there's a chance some hidden gems would be found decades after publication just like it works with works of geniuses. But if the site would be gone there ain't such probability.
So that's why so many people obsess over archiving, to some extent, maybe yet..