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Now here’s something to ponder:

Of late, Youtube has been offline a few times which means that every single video stored on Youtube is not available.

Now many people view these videos via a link to the video rather storing a copy locally, so when youtube goes down all the external links to the videos go down as well.

Everything about the way Web works illustrates the simple fact that it’s not only a collectively produced medium but it that it needs to be collectively ‘owned’ by all of us. The Youtube example reveals the lunacy of a private company ‘owning’ all those millions of videos.

Rather, they should be available on a publicly ‘owned’ site and thus not subject to the vagaries of individual companies.