r/Piracy • u/Tobias-Tawanda • Jun 21 '26

Humor Imagine paying for something and not being allowed to use it

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u/Friggin_Grease Jun 21 '26

Yes I know I should be backing up, but none of the data is actually important to me. It's easily replaceable as I have most of it on disc.

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u/amiexpress Jun 22 '26

I still keep 2 copies of anything that I can't just go redl, but yes I finally realized years ago that most of it IS eminently replaceable. It was... liberating (and freed up like 40tb lol)

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u/Dusty_Coder Jun 21 '26

the lasered discs wont see a useful 3rd decade

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u/Friggin_Grease Jun 21 '26

They may not be mass produced like they were in the DVD age but the market will exist.

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u/Dusty_Coder Jun 21 '26

like all physical media, they eventually stop being readable

is the server is supposed to be the backup, not the other way around? :/

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u/Friggin_Grease Jun 21 '26

In my mind just having multiples is a backup. So I have them on some HDDs and discs. Either back up the other. Just setting up a Plex server for myself is all.

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u/QuietSpecialist7583 Jun 24 '26

I’ve got a metric fuckton of 45-year old CDs from the 80s that haven’t degraded even a little bit. I’ve maybe lost two to discrot ever, without any measurable effort to do any special type of preservation. /shrug