As most of you might already know, I recorded the live stream (including pre-show and first hour) of " The Matrix Online: Not Like This - Finale" and uploaded it to YouTube. Well, this message popped in my YouTube mailbox:

Hello,
I am involved with Stanford University's Preserving Virtual Worlds project. We are working with the Library of Congress and three other universities to research and preserve virtual worlds (as might be apparent from the title of the project). You can find information on this project at http://pvw.illinois.edu/pvw/

Your "Giant Bomb - The Matrix Online" video is a wonderful artifact and I am hoping you will give us permission to archive it in our collection. To see other items in our archive, you can look here: http://www.archive.org/details/virtual_worlds

Please let me know if this meets with your approval and if you have other videos you think might be appropriate for inclusion in our archive. We prefer using the raw video (vs the version uploaded to YouTube) as we find the quality of the version downloaded from YT to be somewhat downgraded. And rather than the short video collection on YouTube, we'd like to archive the full version. Also, what name would you like listed as creator of the video?

Thank you in advance,
~Susan

Whoa. That's pretty cool!

That's pretty awesome. Did you tell the staff about this?

Dude yes! Even though a society dedicated to preserving virtual worlds is stupid (Blame all the over-hype Second Life obtained from the media), you should still accept the offer. Why? Because you CAN!