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6 videos • 73 views • by Frank Lyalone I will upload my own versions of things *only if* I find a reason to do so (corrections and improvements etc). While there's no actual need to re-upload a video from another channel, there are reasons why you might do so as well as why you'd want to avoid it. One reason for re-uploading is to protect against the "single basket" problem (the other video may disappear and there's no backup). On the other hand, re-uploading also has its own problem. And that problem arises because every re-upload of a given video degrades its quality "slightly". So over time, if everyone was re-uploading videos all the time, the original would become overrun with poor-quality copies, then copies of copies of poor quality copies ... etc. Anyway, these have been stable.