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

I didn't make anything in my hoard so I wouldn't charge anything for it. May I give parts out? Sure. But I wouldn't charge a cent as all I did was gather it, intellectually did nothing to create it. Not mine to sell.

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

As I gave me answer I'll add to this. You say "Gaming repair" is this old arcade cabinets?

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

You can buy 5tb arcade rom drives loaded up on amazon, ebay, aliexpress and other places for under $200. I wouldn't recommend selling or even sharing your files for free for legal reasons.

[–] 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.

[–] NinjaOld8057@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Fuck the haters. Sell your hoard for a pretty penny and retire to a fucking beach somewhere.