whats funny is that other than greedo shooting first the rest of the changes weren't really that offensive. But its been a while so maybe I blocked some really bad ones from memory
Technically it is since abandonware has no legal meaning, at least in the US. Nobody can argue this example of copyright infringement isn't a moral good unless they are just arguing from a "you must always follow the law" perspective.
As Ross Scott says, there are no good reasons, only legal ones.
Not just you, but everyone in this comment thread, a reminder:
Hard drives wear out. There is no real effective way to guarantee all the data in them can be safeguarded before it is lost, and critically failing entirely occurs alongside just corrupted data issues. Have redundancies. Test your files where possible.
Honestly, it's hard. There's the obvious, agonizing option of hand-testing files (not all of them, but test a sample of 30-ish of them, ideally not the same ones as a prior test). And... That's really it. That's your option.
It's hard for computers to know when a file is corrupted, except by running the file. And even then, sometimes it won't notice. It's like living in a house with rotted wood in the wall, until it collapses, you won't know unless you by-hand check it.
You could do things like listen to how the server runs, try to hear if any sounds seem off, but every drive sounds ever so different anyways, unless it's REALLY off you won't be able to tell. Best bet is just to sample random files and see if they're intact.
Physical damage is obviously noticeable, of course. Water damage, impact damage, those are bad. And if possible, a temperature check is useful, is it running hotter than it should be? Could be a sign of wear on the internal components, thermal paste erosion (hopefully just that since it's an easy fix), or power source issues.
I'm in the process of consolidating a decade of torrenting from a half dozen 1-4 tb drives in USB caddys to a pair of 16tb drives - no raiding yet but as long as the torrents have at least one seed I can recover from a drive failure
we are to the point where torrents and piracy in general went from being a slightly transgressive convenience to a desirable moral good
the enemies of humanity and western civilization can't use censorship to forward their agendas if they aren't in control over the data
Ridiculous but intriguing take.
whats funny is that other than greedo shooting first the rest of the changes weren't really that offensive. But its been a while so maybe I blocked some really bad ones from memory
ok you are right, I guess I did block those out
Not to that one guy here who's against piracy lol
Is it even piracy at this point? They purposefully took that version off the market, shouldn't the old version be made available as abandonware?
Technically it is since abandonware has no legal meaning, at least in the US. Nobody can argue this example of copyright infringement isn't a moral good unless they are just arguing from a "you must always follow the law" perspective.
As Ross Scott says, there are no good reasons, only legal ones.
Not just you, but everyone in this comment thread, a reminder:
Hard drives wear out. There is no real effective way to guarantee all the data in them can be safeguarded before it is lost, and critically failing entirely occurs alongside just corrupted data issues. Have redundancies. Test your files where possible.
Honestly, it's hard. There's the obvious, agonizing option of hand-testing files (not all of them, but test a sample of 30-ish of them, ideally not the same ones as a prior test). And... That's really it. That's your option.
It's hard for computers to know when a file is corrupted, except by running the file. And even then, sometimes it won't notice. It's like living in a house with rotted wood in the wall, until it collapses, you won't know unless you by-hand check it.
You could do things like listen to how the server runs, try to hear if any sounds seem off, but every drive sounds ever so different anyways, unless it's REALLY off you won't be able to tell. Best bet is just to sample random files and see if they're intact.
Physical damage is obviously noticeable, of course. Water damage, impact damage, those are bad. And if possible, a temperature check is useful, is it running hotter than it should be? Could be a sign of wear on the internal components, thermal paste erosion (hopefully just that since it's an easy fix), or power source issues.
I'm in the process of consolidating a decade of torrenting from a half dozen 1-4 tb drives in USB caddys to a pair of 16tb drives - no raiding yet but as long as the torrents have at least one seed I can recover from a drive failure
what usenet provider do you use?
Plex is amazing. It's worth the cost for a lifetime subscription.