It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TGOEE on 2025-04-17 20:10:37.

We've all known this far that YouTube has been allowing music artists and publishers to re-upload a remastered version of a music video on the same video: this is, on the same link and same likes/views/comments/metadata, etc. We also all know some of these remasters are just AI or other tools upscaling of video (Camcorders, Betamax, TV cameras) recordings, which look awful in some cases and I'd really prefer to watch the original quality ones, for enjoyment reasons and, obviously, for archiving reasons. So:

1. Is there any way to recover these original quality music videos? A: Most probably not. If you know any other answer, please reply.
2. Anyone tried or achieved a full archive of these original quality music videos before the replacement? A: Less probably not, so if someone was able to archive some and is willing to share some (I also archived some back in 2016!), you can DM me if you're interested and we can do a mixed share of them.
3. How to recover some of those music videos? A: Most probably, trying to rip them from DVDs music video compilations released by the same artists. These DVDs don't have YouTube's compression on the videos, so might be the best source to get them. Needless to say, not every artist is major enough or even had the opportunity to release their music videos on DVD (some of them just aired on TV), and even if so, finding a YouTube video is way easier than finding a DVD. Secondly, might just try luck on trackers that focus on music videos.

Have I replied all of the questions by myself? Yes, but also no. If you know any alternative replies to this, please share them. I know this post most probably is in the best interest of the archiving and data hoarding community. Also, if you want to discuss the replacement/removal of these original quality music videos, do so. I have searched on the subreddit and just found praise for this YouTube decision, which I find boggling coming from this sub.

Also, thanks for having me here, data hoarding is my passion and I'm really an aficionado so I love to learn reading this subreddit. Lastly, forgive me for incoherent english grammar if there's any, I'm not a native english speaker and my english skills are decreasing day after day.