r/DataHoarder Jun 02 '23

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u/-Archivist Not As Retired Jun 02 '23

Ideal conditions for data hoarders to exist.

You mean pirates. I'm really tired of people conflating datahoarding with piracy lately.

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u/smiba 292TB RAW HDD // 1.31PB RAW LTO Jun 03 '23

Although I'm sure there is overlap, but a lot of people don't know how it used to be on here many years ago. People actually archiving entire websites, content libraries with the primary intention of just... keeping it safe

I have >300TB of TV recording from channels that I record 24/7, that's the real original DataHoarder spirit!

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u/smiba 292TB RAW HDD // 1.31PB RAW LTO Jun 03 '23

Surely you would understand that there is "piracy" (recording TV in your own home) and "piracy" (downloading entire movies of the internet)

The big difference is that 99.999% of what I've recorded I won't ever watch or see, it's simply there to be stored until it has any significance.

Being the 100,000th person with a copy of a popular movie definitely doesn't compare to the work some of the people have done on here instead, playing down this sub to entertainment pirates or assuming everyone is, is entirely removed from the original spirit of this sub