Swedish amateur archivist “Rosa Mannen” shut down from YouTube again

That was freaky! I live in Trollhättan and did NOT expect to immediately recognize the background scene of a picture linked-to from HN.<p>If I&#x27;m not mistaken, here&#x27;s the bench - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@58.2749468,12.270221,3a,60y,141.38h,91.31t&#x2F;data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipP004NI77KlovQJ0uvZCyW0Ld7XnaJPtdFGFxT8!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipP004NI77KlovQJ0uvZCyW0Ld7XnaJPtdFGFxT8%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya235.0275-ro0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@58.2749468,12.270221,3a,60y,141...</a> .<p>While it&#x27;s right by the Olidan Hydroelectric Power Station, the photographer used a telephoto lens so Rosa Mannen is in the foreground and the upstream Hojum Hydroelectric Power Station is in the background. Here&#x27;s a closer shot of Hojum:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@58.2789593,12.2774802,3a,75y,21.75h,81.94t&#x2F;data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7O4J2wOMvJjL9LIgA7kaKQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@58.2789593,12.2774802,3a,75y,21...</a>

This is very sad news for all Swedes. Here is an article in english: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sweden.postsen.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;49453&#x2F;The-YouTube-channel-Rosa-mannen-shut-down-after-reports.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sweden.postsen.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;49453&#x2F;The-YouTube-channel-...</a><p>And for Swedes you can watch a short interview with him on Swedish Televison in the first 8 minutes of this program: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.svtplay.se&#x2F;video&#x2F;33989650&#x2F;sverige&#x2F;sverige-sasong-25-annika-norlin-fotografen-perfekt-rosa-mannen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.svtplay.se&#x2F;video&#x2F;33989650&#x2F;sverige&#x2F;sverige-sasong...</a><p>The program above is from the last shutdown and the example given there about his most popular clip was a very old show of Bonnie Tyler. SVT, at the time, made the clip available officially via SVT Play again but has since disappeared from their service almost as a reminder that culture will disappear from the public unless enthusiast like Rosa Mannen can make them available somewhere.

I really thought BitTorrent would be the _de facto_ solution for data archiving at a planetary level. I thought dusty old computers would sync and store volumes of data across generations. Recorded history would be safe; it could even be checksummed for its integrity if needed.<p>Unfortunately, we are still relying on a couple of companies as the main custodians of our recorded history. This can&#x27;t be good and we&#x27;ll keep receiving sad news about content vanishing from the Internet from one day to the other.

What do you think happens when you upload captured TV-content on YT?? From copyright point of view there is not really much difference between 20 day old content and 20 year old content, its all equally protected. Just saying that the intent is &quot;archival&quot; doesn&#x27;t change anything

Youtube is the wrong place for this sort of thing, unfortunately.<p>Archive.org is the right place for it.

We have deep respect for other languages, but HN is an English-language site. If there&#x27;s an article about this in English, we can change the URL.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;query=by%3Adang%20english-language%20site&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;que...</a>

This is very sad, indeed. I hope rosa mannen get restored (again).<p>This type of archival work is very important for us interested in current &amp; recent culture (This probably is all of us in some sense).<p>There&#x27;s so many cool archival efforts going on that unfortunatley seem to rely on youtube.<p>As a nostalgic swede, i found this one recently.<p>Its a mad ** archive of all of the early underground swedish hiphop.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;mfsthathustla&#x2F;playlists" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;mfsthathustla&#x2F;playlists</a>

Now that&#x27;s a name I haven&#x27;t heard in a while. Used to download his music video rips off thepiratebay.<p>Much respect to media hoarders of all creeds.

History is copyrighted.<p>Sorry.

I really hope someone who has put this much time into archiving stuff didn’t put all his eggs in one basket and still has these archives sorted offline in case he wants to distribute them, would be awful to put so much time into something and then just have youtube pull it away.