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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/BadWi-Fi on 2025-10-17 11:08:14+00:00.

Youtube had never allowed the dvd quality of 720×576 or other dvd formats, essentially all of the music videos that have ever been uploaded on youtube have been uploaded in the lower quality than the original, pixelated and with f-ed frame rate, due to scalling issues, in either 480p or 360p. This led to the disappearence of the higher quality originals, that were left rotting on old forgotten dvds.

Since 2023 companies that hold the copyright on this music videos - instead of preserving the original quality music videos- have been uploading “SUPER REMASTER AI UPSCALED HD QUALITY” versions of their MVs , which were ai slopps made from low quality youtube uploads taken from Vevo. They didn’t even bother to search their archives when making their ai slopps, they just took low quality videos straight from their own vevo channels.

Essentially, many original quality quality VOB format music from 2000s and earlier are lost. And up until now, some were preserved on the Internet Archive. The administration of the Internet Archive had been systematically deleting entries featuring music videos in their original quality, ostensibly out of fear of copyright holders. The entries that they had on Goo Goo Dolls, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Gwen Stefani, Robbie Williams, Six Pence non the Reacher, Pink, and many other are all gone. Example of a deleted entry: https://archive.org/details/red-hot-chili-peppers-otherside-original-iso.

What can be done? Are the deleted entries still on the archive, or are they completey deleted?