Data Hoarder

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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Has anyone ever sold their hoard? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by azgamerepair@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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I have been in gaming repair for 20+ years and i have one of the largest hoards of files in the community. It’s mostly bin files iso hdd images. All together its roughly 5tb of data. One of the companies i help out a lot has offered to buy a copy of my hoard. 99% of the files are online in different archives so im not too worried about legality i just have no clue what I would even charge for something like that. Buying everything one chip or cd at a time I probably have thousands invested into this hoard.

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[–] SlowThePath@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

If you worked at a video store and manually uploaded all the blu-rays to your computer, do you think it would be a good idea to sell all those files to someone? Obviously, that's illegal af. You are talking about doing the exact same thing.