Hoarding

>>56580197
Not really worth it. At least for stuff like movies and games, and I say this as someone with awful internet where it takes an entire day to download a movie.

I hoard stuff that is sort of "rare". Like specific porn and hard to find music and stuff. But for most stuff you can just redownload.

Granted dropping streaming services is a good thing, but you don't need to become a hoarder to do so.

>>56580197

I lost 3TB disk with lot of hoarded stuff over years. damn

I hoard mainly porn. Already recovered and have over 600gb (no HD stuff to just waste space)

streaming porn is shit, you cannot seek fast enough

>>56580282
>you cannot seek fast enough

True, but you can usually hover over the progress bar to see a thumbnail

>>56580214
Why is dropping streaming services a good thing

>>56580413

because my free, as in free to suck a cock, freedoms

>>56580197
>What's the best way?

Private tracker

>>56580214
>I hoard stuff that is sort of "rare". Like specific porn and hard to find music and stuff. But for most stuff you can just redownload.
I used to get a lot of stuff from yahoo groups. Now they're all gone and I can't redownload any of it.

Storage is dirt cheap these days, buy some HDDs and rsync all your stuff on them, cheap and no effort. It's better to hoard the stuff you think you'll need or has some value to you. Putting trust in web services lasting 10+ years is just silly. A lot of free online storage websites and links leading to them (like rapidshare, megaupload, fileden and many, many others) are 100% dead, but they weren't dead in 2007. Now most of it is irreversibly lost or paywalled.

Thinking "you can just redownload" is just really stupid. Sure it might all still be there today, but that might not be the case in 2019. Especially when you start looking for that one thing you didn't bother saving on a permanent medium and all you can find are locked forum threads with dead links posted by people who haven't logged in for 2 years or 0 seed torrents.