I know you can google “X media option degredation.” You do not need me to link you to a search engine. If youre advocating methods of preservation, you should already know this information.
But if you think paying a company for cloud storage is “potentially indefinite,” I dont think you should be giving preservation advice.
Especially with a sentence like “you can probably just re-pirate it in 50 years.” Thats so completely nonsensical.
How so? I can still pirate games from 20-30 years ago, probably further back. If you’re going to pirate anyway, let other people store the files for you.
But if you’re not going to pirate, you shouldn’t have to worry about storage services taking down your files. If there’s a claim against it somehow, you can show evidence that you purchased it legally and you’re good. If you’re worried, just encrypt it and their scanners won’t find it so they’d need to be tipped off that it contains illegal content (and likely need a warrant to attempt to decrypt).
Any why would paying a company to store things be poor advice long term? If you’re worried about the company going under, duplicate it across services (doubles your costs). You can also keep local backups as well, like DVDs, but I certainly trust the company more than my personal storage solution.
Because if your preservation method is “let other people do it for me and Ill pirate it when I want it,” you arent preserving anything. Full stop, that is not preservation. Someone else is doing that for you. In the same way “just buy your veggies from safeway” isnt home grown gardening.
You are on lemmy, I dont really think I should explain to you why you cannot trust a public profit driven company to have your interests at heart. They are capable of just deleting your data the second it benefits them to do so, and you have no real recourse or defense from that. Personal usage is fine, and taking that risk is fine, but that is not adequate preservation of media. Youre not preserving things.
Duplicates are also sort of an expected precaution for preservation. If you are preserving media, you should have at least 1 duplicate, and 3 copies is probably ideal.
Like. If you dont want the hassle of trying to preserve things thats fine. But preservation is something you shouldnt take lightly if youre trying to do it, because your copy may be the only surviving copy a century or longer from now.
I know you can google “X media option degredation.” You do not need me to link you to a search engine. If youre advocating methods of preservation, you should already know this information.
But if you think paying a company for cloud storage is “potentially indefinite,” I dont think you should be giving preservation advice.
Especially with a sentence like “you can probably just re-pirate it in 50 years.” Thats so completely nonsensical.
How so? I can still pirate games from 20-30 years ago, probably further back. If you’re going to pirate anyway, let other people store the files for you.
But if you’re not going to pirate, you shouldn’t have to worry about storage services taking down your files. If there’s a claim against it somehow, you can show evidence that you purchased it legally and you’re good. If you’re worried, just encrypt it and their scanners won’t find it so they’d need to be tipped off that it contains illegal content (and likely need a warrant to attempt to decrypt).
Any why would paying a company to store things be poor advice long term? If you’re worried about the company going under, duplicate it across services (doubles your costs). You can also keep local backups as well, like DVDs, but I certainly trust the company more than my personal storage solution.
Because if your preservation method is “let other people do it for me and Ill pirate it when I want it,” you arent preserving anything. Full stop, that is not preservation. Someone else is doing that for you. In the same way “just buy your veggies from safeway” isnt home grown gardening.
You are on lemmy, I dont really think I should explain to you why you cannot trust a public profit driven company to have your interests at heart. They are capable of just deleting your data the second it benefits them to do so, and you have no real recourse or defense from that. Personal usage is fine, and taking that risk is fine, but that is not adequate preservation of media. Youre not preserving things.
Duplicates are also sort of an expected precaution for preservation. If you are preserving media, you should have at least 1 duplicate, and 3 copies is probably ideal.
Like. If you dont want the hassle of trying to preserve things thats fine. But preservation is something you shouldnt take lightly if youre trying to do it, because your copy may be the only surviving copy a century or longer from now.