An archive channel containing hundreds of decades-old videos from the Apple Worldwide Developer Conferences was taken down by YouTube. The owner of the Apple WWDC Videos channel says his account has been permanently disabled after he received three copyright strikes.
Some of the videos Apple sought to take down were posted in the early 2000s. The original video files and descriptions are still in his possession and he is trying to get them to the internet archive. Apple didn't reply immediately.
This isn't the first time Apple has gone after old stuff. Sam Henri Gold, a product designer, made it his mission to preserve EveryAppleVideo's videos after they were removed from the internet. Gold created the unofficial Apple Archive in 2020 after initially trying to store them in an 80GB torrent file and then trying to host them on the internet.
There was a huge amount of old Apple ads on the website. After the site's launch, it was flooded with notices from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which resulted in its content being taken down. There is an archive version of the website here.
The company doesn't do a good job of making its history readily available to fans. The small, but growing Steve Jobs Archive is the closest we will get to an official archive of the company. Friends and family of Jobs launched the site.
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