It turns the recording into a physical object and can be shared privately. Obviously YouTube is not the place for these kinds of family recordings because they aren't for a general audience and should not be subject to YouTube's various destructive treatments

Across 6 states and 3 countries? We're talking a couple hundred bucks in postage and a malware vector. Thanks for the practical advice.

And, fwiw, the remainder of the old movies she put up didn't get flagged, so you're wrong about the fitness of the platform for dorky family videos.

I sincerely doubt that it would cost a couple hundred bucks for that amount of shipment. Further, if you're worried about an attack vector, put the videos on a mini-DVD or some other format that is also small and read-only.

And yeah, the remainder of the videos might not have been flagged, but we're talking about the one that did. Please keep the focus placed on the problem that you brought up.