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?
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?
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
I feel the same way about music, which is why I am an obsessive buyer of physical music.
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.
Link rot on YouTube is insane. I have been scraping old demos in case the accounts get reported or zapped for impolitic speech.
Sounds awesome! Can you list some cool examples you have hoarded?
Got the entirety of Super Sentai and Power Rangers (to the latest season), Big Brother (just missing the 1 season I’ve been procrastinating on downloading), Survivor, SNL (tho missing some specials), and 80,000+ comics (individual issues, cbr/cbz) from various companies over the decades.
My comic scans collection are my most prized files for sure.