No one is coming into your jungle to dismantle your house, or searching your vehicle to seize your wallet. You are going out of your way to utilize other people's infrastructure.
If you don't rely upon youtube, you don't need to worry about youtube. If you choose to take advantage of the ease and convenience of utilizing their freely-available service, you have to deal with their rules. For most people, it's a small price to pay. For everyone else, there's stackoverflow.
I don't understand why people think it's a corporation's job to preserve knowledge for future generations. We have a government for that.
Google never signed up for that role I'm sure. And if we expect them to do that funnel taxpayer money to them. But honestly I don't want to live in a world where corporations provide these public goods.
If you don't rely upon youtube, you don't need to worry about youtube. If you choose to take advantage of the ease and convenience of utilizing their freely-available service, you have to deal with their rules. For most people, it's a small price to pay. For everyone else, there's stackoverflow.