I feel like lately I’ve been doing more piracy than actually using the content I’ve been pirating. Curating a library has been so enjoyable lately, I’m not the only one right?

  • GeekFTWEnglish
    18•2 years ago

    Right there with ya. I’m a data hoarder first and foremost. I have two goals when it comes to piracy:

    A) If I have ever watched, read, listened, played, or otherwise enjoyed a piece of media, I will have it available at all times.

    B) Do what I can to preserve said data so 40 years from now when I’m telling kids about some generic super hero comic, or SNES game, or obscure TV miniseries, I can pull that shit up in seconds instead of being the old senile man telling stories.

    I got 30TB of space, I got almost every movie, TV show, stand up special, album, video game, comic book, novel, and essential software that I want (and adding more daily), and it’s all served up to whatever friend wants it via Plex or whatever-other-means-I-need-depending-on-the-media.

    Meanwhile I’m on my 35th watch through of Archer lol

    • Death MetalEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      I feel the same way about music, which is why I am an obsessive buyer of physical music.

      • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃English
        2•2 years ago

        This. I love just raiding local libraries for disks, checking them all out, and archiving. Only have a few tens of gigabytes rn (I’m a newbie), and only a few gigs of “downloaded for free” music, but I’m enjoying both the media and the process. Mostly just YouTube-music scraping with ytmp3, but looking to get more serious soon.

        • Death MetalEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          Link rot on YouTube is insane. I have been scraping old demos in case the accounts get reported or zapped for impolitic speech.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 years ago

          Man, I remember crossing the 10GB threshold for my music collection back in high school. I’m at 54GB now, just music. Back then my friends and I all had iPods set to “manually managed”, so we all shared what we had with each other without fear of losing anything. Then we figured out how to copy all of it off the iPod to a hard drive and sort it properly.

          Fuck… I still have shit with creation dates as far back as 2003. Is this how it feels to be old??