<story><title>Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/22/22589403/porn-site-bought-expired-video-hosting-site-old-embeds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sp332</author><text>4 years ago, Archive Team backed up &amp;quot;nearly all&amp;quot; of Vidme (according to Jason Scott). It was uploaded to the Internet Archive here &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;archiveteam_vidme&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;archiveteam_vidme&lt;/a&gt; so you can fix your vid.me URLs by pointing them to the Archive.&lt;p&gt;(And you can help keep them there, too &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;donate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;donate&lt;/a&gt; But honestly, using the Archive more keeps the bigger donors involved, so don&amp;#x27;t feel guilty or anything. Just use the Archive!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>The search results counter is 12,385...is that really all (or &amp;quot;nearly all&amp;quot;) of what Vid.me had for content? I mean I know it failed at dethroning Youtube, but 12,000+ videos is barely anything.</text></comment>
<story><title>Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/22/22589403/porn-site-bought-expired-video-hosting-site-old-embeds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sp332</author><text>4 years ago, Archive Team backed up &amp;quot;nearly all&amp;quot; of Vidme (according to Jason Scott). It was uploaded to the Internet Archive here &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;archiveteam_vidme&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;archiveteam_vidme&lt;/a&gt; so you can fix your vid.me URLs by pointing them to the Archive.&lt;p&gt;(And you can help keep them there, too &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;donate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;donate&lt;/a&gt; But honestly, using the Archive more keeps the bigger donors involved, so don&amp;#x27;t feel guilty or anything. Just use the Archive!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swiley</author><text>That really is an amazing organization.</text></comment>