Ahhh, now I understand your problem. You’re a datahoarder! Yeah, it kinda sucked to collect media back in the day. In the early 00’s I had a neighbour who collected mp3s - he didn’t care what type of music it was, he just collected 'em. I didn’t understand at the time, but now I see he was a budding archivist.
Yeah, but you gotta learn to love the bomb. After they stole my laptop and backup drive (only had 1 backup, silly me), I became disappointed in local storage. When they killed liveleak, I knew the adage ‘the internet remembers’ was hollow and only the short-term memory thrives, if that.
From what I gather, hoarding music, movies and newer tv shows for preservation is unnecessary, but if you come across an old TV casette recording of a broadcast TV show, digitize it and upload it to Anna’s Archive.
Good luck honing your hoarding skills. I too prefer local copies. Who wants to sit through buffering?
Music availability can be spotty without VPN depending on your interests. Streaming services don’t curate everything you might want and youtube region locks stuff. They’ve also gotten pretty cancerous about content striking.
I didn’t think movies would be hard until I started trying to watch foreign films. Aki Karismäki films were my personal white whale and now I’ll seed those until I die. I forgot about Anna’s Archive. I wonder if they’d be wanted there?
Yeah the end of U.S. internet neutrality royally fucked streaming speeds. That’s a reason in itself
I should have burned DVD’s. Wasn’t an option I had available back then
Yeah, the fumes are trippy.
Ahhh, now I understand your problem. You’re a datahoarder! Yeah, it kinda sucked to collect media back in the day. In the early 00’s I had a neighbour who collected mp3s - he didn’t care what type of music it was, he just collected 'em. I didn’t understand at the time, but now I see he was a budding archivist.
Indeed! Just not a very good one.
And yeah It’s crazy the stuff that’s becoming unavailable over time. Luckily music is a little more preserved and available than a lot of film
Yeah, but you gotta learn to love the bomb. After they stole my laptop and backup drive (only had 1 backup, silly me), I became disappointed in local storage. When they killed liveleak, I knew the adage ‘the internet remembers’ was hollow and only the short-term memory thrives, if that.
From what I gather, hoarding music, movies and newer tv shows for preservation is unnecessary, but if you come across an old TV casette recording of a broadcast TV show, digitize it and upload it to Anna’s Archive.
Good luck honing your hoarding skills. I too prefer local copies. Who wants to sit through buffering?
The internet truly has the memory of a goldfish with adhd. Thank god for you sickos with archival instincts.
Music availability can be spotty without VPN depending on your interests. Streaming services don’t curate everything you might want and youtube region locks stuff. They’ve also gotten pretty cancerous about content striking.
I didn’t think movies would be hard until I started trying to watch foreign films. Aki Karismäki films were my personal white whale and now I’ll seed those until I die. I forgot about Anna’s Archive. I wonder if they’d be wanted there?
Yeah the end of U.S. internet neutrality royally fucked streaming speeds. That’s a reason in itself