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At the risk of getting grabbed by the MPAA...I want to use a system like this to globally access my media archive, which includes all my legitimately acquired g
by marvin 19y ago
At the risk of getting grabbed by the MPAA...I want to use a system like this to globally access my media archive, which includes all my legitimately acquired games and music, but also a decent amount of pirated material. Obviously storing copyrighted material without a license on a server in other people's control is a very bad idea. This would be a very useful thing to do though; maybe in a different world where the copyright system has been reformed... I often find myself at a friend's house wanting to see some movie I have on my disk, but I never bother to bring my portable HD unless it's planned.
I have about..50 gigabytes of images of games that I own, i think? Having access to those anywhere would be really nice. I would run my private server to do this kind of thing anyway, but this networking solution would make things a lot easier. However, I wouldn't want anyone to instigate a raid based on what to the casual observer seems like a fat load of illegally acquired copyrighted material. This would be a problem even if I only uploaded what I own.
And then there's the problem of storage cost, 1.5$/10GB/month turns into a considerable number very quickly. So I suppose you intend this kind of thing for the small stuff; images, documents, small-to-medium music collections etc.?
- spydez 19y agoThat's my problem with all these online storage things. It's too expensive to save my 150 gigs of FLAC/mp3 on their service. Not even S3 is cost effective. And I do not want to waste all the time to rerip all those CDs if my computers gets stolen (again), so I finally had to settle for rsync and Dreamhost @ $12/mo for 500 GB, but Dreamhost is far from fast, so it's not perfect.
- kingnothing 19y agoWhy not just buy a hard drive, store your audio on it, and leave it at a trusted friend / relative's house?
- spydez 19y agoI'd like to keep it up to date, so just a harddrive is inadequate, since all my trusted friends and relatives are 3 hours away. I'd need a whole computer, on 24/7 with some ports forwarded and stuff. I don't want to impose the... 8 or 10 bucks extra electricity per month a 24/7 comp uses. (Also, there's the nice side benefit of having a webserver to host my random forays into web design, personal blog, etc.)