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Randomgal ,

I only pirate what I’m about to consume? How is this a problem? Lol

littlecolt ,

Avoid hoarding? I don’t understand. My 30 TB file server can be expanded further still.

Chadus_Maximus ,

I format my drives once every couple years. Makes me think real hard about what to keep.

modest_bunny ,

I’m mostly hoarding this stuff because I have no fucking clue.

what is the problem?

ICastFist OP ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

I feel like I’m being wasteful, saving up a lot to probably never actually use. Can’t even seed some of the stuff because there are no torrents, so I have to resort to direct download sites way more often than I’d like, no less.

cheddar ,
@cheddar@programming.dev avatar

I only download what I plan to consume shortly, then delete.

matcha_addict ,

I do almost that, but I don’t delete so that I can seed

cheddar ,
@cheddar@programming.dev avatar

I seed until the ratio is 2.0 which I think is fine for popular torrents. I keep seeding obscure stuff that I struggled to download myself, but that’s quite rare, so it doesn’t lead to ‘hoarding’.

mr_right ,
@mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Use a 256 GB ssd Good luck hoarding on that rice grain

seaturtle ,

And this is why I consider SSDs to be a downgrade compared to HDDs lol

matcha_addict ,

No issue hoarding if you’re seeding

DuckBilledMongoose ,

I sort of regretted downloading massive rom packs for retro consoles because I never actually get round to playing them. it’s so hard to settle on one when there’s so much choice. But now with the recent crack downs on ROM sites I’m really glad I’ve preserved them. Hoard away friend!

Taleya ,

Roms don’t count!

thatKamGuy ,

I downloaded the entire SNES catalogue when I was overseas; so glad I did that then as it’s become much more difficult over the past few years.

II recently tried to download ISOs of my PS1 & 2 collections so that I could play them on my Steam Deck, and found out that at it’s actually a lot faster and easier just to to them myself - as whatever sources I can find are either dead links, or download so slowly that the connection is likely to time out before the download completes.

ICastFist OP ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

I’ve done that with the Sharp X68000, I’ve downloaded the entire collection it has (~18GB). Do I know Japanese? No. Have I even checked if an emulator works with them? Also no. But it’s there

Emerald ,

18gb is nothing at the end of the day. Roms are small. It’s the same thing with my 50gib font collection, its a lot of fonts, but little file size

Kit ,

I’m concerned that crackdowns on pirating will come sooner or later. At some point it may become too much of a hassle. So I’m hoarding a lifetime of old movies and games to hold me over.

Dreamless4561 ,

Just keep seeding the torrents. As long as the torrents for stuff is healthy, how could it be cracked down?

daniskarma ,

Enough countries ban torrenting so you cannot even uses vpn to get around it.

Dreamless4561 ,

How do they do that?

daniskarma ,

Ask Germany. Torrenting without VPN is almost imposible, you’ll get sued by copyright lawyers.

Dreamless4561 ,

Exactly, so you can use a VPN to get around that.

daniskarma ,

You use a vpn to other country without that ban. Once enough countries apply that ban. Where are you going to VPN to?

Emerald ,

Why would any country ban torrenting? Torrenting isn’t illegal, downloading and distributing copyrighted works is

daniskarma ,

What I mean is what is already happening in some countries, that is having laws that makes extra easy for copyright lawers to sue anyone using torrent for sharing their IP.

Taleya ,

I only dl shit i’m interested in. After watching if it’s gonna be rewatched, it goes on the fserve. If not, delete

dRLY ,
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Like others here, I tend to only download when I find (or remember) something I like. Most of the stuff I have was either downloaded to watch or listen to right away. Others are things I watched at some point, or that I just finished and really liked. Especially anything exclusive from the current services since they don’t bother to release physical copies (or even legal digital purchases for that matter). When they do release a disc they fuck up getting any money from me by virtue of a HD/4k being only released on DVD.

After seeing the more and more open statements and updated TOS’s about losing things if they just decide to ditch an outlet. I finally got around to getting a BDXL drive for my PC and flashed the unlock firmware. So I plan to rip my discs to have all the access I can give myself. Sadly I really really need to commit to getting some actual capacity drives, and move my server to a dedicated PC and not just keep running off my daily PC (though it can handle double duty pretty easy after a couple of years of big upgrades).

Weirdly enough my legal digital libraries tend to have more of an issue with “hoarding” if there are like “Steam sales” on whatever service. Also tend to get things that are part of Movies Anywhere since it is basically the closest thing to having a bit of protection of not losing stuff if any one service closes. Helpful for my current lacking of proper drive space. And I plan to rip those streams once the other PC gets built (or until I build a new main PC and setup the current as dedicated).

daniskarma ,

I do not avoid hoarding.

I’m like a dragon with a media treasure stored in high capacity industrial HDDs.

Someday the age of pirates may come to an end, and I want to be prepared.

GeekFTW ,

Same. I’m a Doctor Who fan. I don’t need to learn lessons twice. My grandchildren will be able to watch the dumb shit I grew up with one way or another!

snownyte ,

Aside from using the word 'consume'...

I don't like hoarding. I become so isolated from choice that I can't enjoy anything I've ever acquired. I've always gotten what I wanted because I wanted it, not because everyone else has gotten it and not because it's just to take up data on my drives. What I have now currently anyways, will sustain me for days to months and getting more of it will not make it better. It'll just bring oversaturation and I'll be too isolated again to bother.

Bianca_0089 ,

I just watch and delete because I don’t ever really watch anything more than a few times anyways.

The only kind of stuff I’ve ever made backups of is dev software and old keygens because . well - that kind of stuff disappears too easily with the new&shiny fad.

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