I will grab the occasional file that really interests me, but lately since I’ve discovered sites like Flixer or streamvaults, I will just stream the shows and movies that I’m curious about but don’t really feel the need to collect.
What about you?
After years of streaming sites, you get tired of the churn. It’s only natural that most only last a year or two. Who’s paying for the infrastructure? The users just want to view streams with no payment and no ads, so the provider is just paying out of pocket. That doesn’t last long.
Torrents are maintained by a community, that you can contribute to yourself. It’s just more sustainable.
When you stream you’re still downloading. I prefer to have finer grain control over my buffer zone for when I’m offline.
I hoard media. I’m particular about my releases. I don’t want to stream some shady website that could disappear half way through a show.
I kept waiting to invest in more drives. Now I’m stuck with 4x4TB for the foreseeable future because replacing that raid array is brutal and even then I want to go bigger. Like the other commenter said, I’d like to be able to mirror big data sets.
Curate, is my advice.
I occasionally go through and cull the worst shows and movies. No point keeping mainstream crap that’s readily available on all the streaming sites.
shady website that could disappear half way through a show.
this has occured to me tooo many times too.
yup happening with the one streaming site I use as of tomorrow.
If I had the capital, I’d mirror git repos, anna’s archives, libgen, scihub, Wikipedias, torrents, usenet, sketches, websites, portfolios, archive.org, minerva, etc. etc…
It is precisely capitalist oppressions that I haven’t been able to “download everything.” Otherwise I would, and then some.I don’t think capitalist oppression is why hard drives aren’t free
It is why they are preposterously expensive currently.
Along with ram and a whole bunch of other shit.
I hoard. Physical media is getting harder to come by, but I’ve ripped all my DVD’s, TV shows, all BDs, all UHD BDs, and 3D. About 2k discs in total. A lot I’ve found used, local video shop closeouts, etc. My dad has about 400-450 retail CDs. I’ve backed up all his stuff too.
I’ve got 8x 16TB drives (RAID5+spare), 10x 8TB drives (RAID5 +spare), and some 2TB SSDs (RAID10) for personal files for my family.
I’ve purchased a new 24x bay Rosewill case for the next expansion 😅. My wife doesn’t like the noise emanating from the basement. ✈️
i don’t really pirate music any more, i get 90% of what i want to listen to from podcasts, internet/community radio and youtube mixes. trying to get in the habit buying stuff i really like from bandcamp to actually support artists.
my mate put me on his family spotify… so use that very rarely, mostly for nostalgia hits.
movies/tv 100% 🏴☠️
Games also 98% mainly old games btw.
if wasnt so time poor id probs spend more $$$ on indie games… but capitalism be sucking me dry.
at least if i download some roms and dont play them i wont feel guilty for wasting my money.
Recent years capitalism is really a big problem. Recession after inflation. After recession. After AI boom and more price increases. After shrinkflation.
I still grab everything and cold storage older/unwatched stuff onto blurays and this stack of ancient hdds i got from work. Seeing as space is so expensive now, I can see your view and would probably be taking that if I didn’t already have a huge pool before the rampocalypse.
For maybe a 1 off thing, like a singular episode of a show, absolutely going to stream it rather than download the whole series and then not watch the rest.
Though, I typically like having all my shows/movies available with or without internet if possible. So I think you can easoly figure out my stance.
I download everything, I just may not ultimately keep it long-term if it turns out to be uninteresting or bad. Streaming and downloading transfer the same amount of bits, one just has higher demands for timeliness.
I do. Streaming sites (official or pirate) can still remove content or go offline all together. Also the pirate sites often have low quality.
With downloading I have full control over everything. And the collecting itself is fun, too!
The only real downside is HDD/hardware prices.
I would if I could afford the storage. I’d download and archive every YouTube video I watch instead of streaming it. But I hoard and with like 20tb of collective storage, I’m still always moving things around.
i do, my network sucks so there’s the occasional buffering + streamed videos usually seem to have terrible quality/watermarks etc. also the ability to use custom subtitles (in my native lang and not english) is useful
I like the idea of still have everything available if I ever move somewhere without access to internet. It actually happened to me once temporarily last time I moved, for a few months I only had internet on my phone.
on my server I have the entire library of NES, Master System, Game Gear, GB, GBC, GBA, SNES, Genesis, Sega CD, Saturn, Dreamcast, N64, PSX, and PS2 games. Terabytes of games. have I played them all? no way.
I feel ya. I have shit tons of roms on my hard drives. I really like being able to hoard everything tbh.
I got something similar for movies and series and music. I’ll never see or hear it all, not enough time in a life.
I’d live to make some sort of library out it, something federated that can never die until the last server would go down… That way, everyone can enjoy this
yeah it’s also the same with me for movies, shows, and music. the ROMs take up the most space naturally but I’ll download new releases for movies and shows and most of the time I don’t watch them. for music I’ll find something I like online and then download it off soulseek and I might never hear it again as I have thousands of tracks in my library.
