This is why they invented torrents. Mass downloaders actually help the distribution of files, as long as they seed of course.

>piracy websites and archives dropping like flies
>titles being delisted, with no official way to buy them anymore
>"problematic" titles being censored, with no official way to access the original versions
>everything moving to subscription-based where you lose access the moment you stop paying
Data hoarding will continue until the situation improves (lol).

>>108295239
This, the problem is faggots hoarding the data on some shitty website then being shocked that people download files from it.

This thread is going to devolve into a drivelet support group. Enjoy your pity party, I’m going to just download the internet.

>>108295207
Data hoarders were always right. I didn't listen until after storage got expensive and may not get cheaper any time soon if ever.

>>108295207
>want to preserve old games
>people ensure they're preserves by making copies.
>noooo we were supposed to take it all offline one day and destroy the data!!!!

>>108295293
why aren't all those hoarders making websites then

>>108295207
sounds like a problem for "someone" whoever they are. why should I give a shit about what "someone" hosts

>>108295207
>Here my archive website :D
>Great, let me make a copy, 2 is alway better then one for preservation
>NOOOOO THINK ABOUT MUH SERVER AND
make it a tracker next time faggot

>>108295207
Data hoarding is a like a bank rush, people only do it because they're afraid the place hosting the files won't be there much longer. Its partially self fulfilling, but is usually also the only winning move for any person who may want those files in the future.

>>108295648
Why would you host a website?

The hoarders are right. I haven't contributed to myrient's current hammering but I can assure you that's only because I obtained the sets I wanted years ago already from GGn, Ugg (RIP), Blackcats (RIP) and other sources that distribute large files the way they are supposed to be - via torrents.

Sites come and go. The data is the only thing that matters. RIP mininova.

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>what is p2p
retards be retards

>>108295676
this

>>108295676
>2 is alway better then one
Nobody is doing this

without robust protections some 0.001% malicious actors can ruin things, pretending its anyone but the hosters fault is silly

wow someone on the internet abused a thing, how could this happen

>>108295239
fpbp

>>108295710
>i'm PRESERVING them, bro
>no you can't see them, what would be the point of that??

>>108295207
it's not data hoarders its quantity of normies using the site

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myrient never cared about preservation
anna's archive distributes everything by torrents and splits the torrents up so people can download as many as they want as possible and also before that made sure there are hoarders with full copies out there and also backed up other libraries they same way

Besides the issue isn't hoarders. It's the massive influx of new users people who never even knew it ever existed now flooding it to try to download shit

90% of its issues could be sold by sectioning off a top 50 games from each console or some shit to let them go rape that server

>>108295270
Seed it faggot

I will skim through it, download what I recognize and let the rest die its deserved abandonware death.

>>108295239
You mean these chumps host pirated games on fucking ftp servers? Like it's the fucking 90s before torrents were a thing? Lmaoooo. Tech illiterate retard zoomers deserve every ounce of suffering they bring upon themselves.

>>108295886
No. I believe that knowledge should be gatekept, especially from the profane.

>>108296033
>Like it's the fucking 90s before torrents were a thing?
I now understand the Vietnam flashbacks. I ran a Warez server while I was in Junior High.

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>>108295207
>refuse to make a torrent, ask people to use rclone on your server instead
>"wtf why are people using rclone on my server???!?"

>>108295748
when will the Ichijo Festival finally release?

tangentially related i've noticed that a lot of people seem to dismiss bandwidth costs as negligible for some reason. like the prevailing thought seems to be that it used to be a problem but isn't anymore, just based on vibes i suppose.

The child porn community does not have this "problem" because it to be expected hosts and servers to be down all the time. This is why you can find entire sets from decades ago easily. All for free of course.

the most niggerlicious part is that hoarders didn't give a shit a month ago
FOMO is for apes

>>108295853
Remind me of "the Japanese Game Preservation Society"
They took donations in money and games, and used the money to store all the donated games in a building in a bunch of boxes. Journalists and academics could contact them to request access to the building to look at the games. The rest of the public could look at the game list online, and an occasional newsletter about recent donations. Then they ran out of money, and are begging for funds so they can pay the rent.

>>108295252
For what it's worth, buy physical if you can.
Though the retro game market is fucked thanks to speculators.

>>108295207
should have been 1 file / IP / day.
nobody plays more than one new game per day.
and if you do, you're a sick fuck, get help.

>>108295207
All he had to do was offer torrents. In fact only offer torrents using magnet links on the main site. I doubt those old roms are being updated that often. Then he can just have the entire collection on his seedbox and rate limit clients to protect his costs and encourage seeding.

I've never even heard of myrient but I will assume that all of their content has been mirrored on gazelle games by now

>>108295648
because you dont need a website and only need a magnet link

>>108296415
well yes it wasnt about to close a month ago? retard

>>108295207
>username: "ethicalhumanbeing"
>top 1% commenter
>an emotional child throwing a tantrum speaking about things he knows nothing about because hes so technologically illiterate he doesnt know what torrents are
kek cant make it up

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>Have every single game up to PS2 because space is cheap for anyone who isn't a turd worldie

EEEEEYUP! I'm hoarding!

>>108295270
i just want one or two 2+ TB drives gdi

>>108296998
this
theres nothing past ps2 thats worth it and ps2 is only 10tb not counting obscure shit

>>108297002
I’m literally just disgarding two 2tb drives because I need to make room for some 14 tb ones.

Hang in there kid, you’ll get up there someday.

>should i use torrents and webseeds and not have to handle all (or almost any) site load myself? nah i dont want to do that i would rather pay 6k a month and then complain about it for no reason
>because of that now i have to close, hmm, should i work with the community so i can dump all my data just once and be done with it? nah i dont want to do that i will let people scramble so everything gets downloaded 10 times over instead and make it cost even more for me!
the site owner is literally braindead.

>>108296456
Yeah. That shit is retarted. If it was at least some kind of museaum but people donating are doing nothing but funding some nerd's collection.

I hope it catches fire on the next megaquake in Japan.

>>108295676
okay where's the 2

>>108297036
>pay 6k a month
this myrient nigga retarded for sure

>>108295207
myrient IS a data hoarder
unfortunately he chose to pay thousands in bandwidth per month instead of using torrents

>>108296888
Shit most of their stuff came from there and older trackers to begin with

>>108295648
Because torrents exist as a far better way to keep files alive?

>>108295252
>>108295270
>>108295738
Some advices on websites I should data hoard from?

>>108296993
>top 1%
Not a plebbitor but 999% sure they count unused accounts too, so almost literally everyone is in the top 1%.

>>108295239
>as long as they seed of course.
not my problem

>>108297796
this post brought to you by /ptg/ gang

is vimms lair still up

>>108295207
your data hoarder envy is showing.

>>108295207
>"WAH they are locking my bandwidth!"
>no torrent
massive retards
>>108295239
FP? BP!

>>108296033
worse, they used cloud storage at 5000% markup

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>>108296665
This might be the worst take in the thread. Nigger I'm not going back every day like it's some mobile game slop. I'll download what I want up front and never come back.

>>108297796
leeching torrents is a prisoner's dilemma
if everyone leeches then nobody gets to download since nobody bothers to download at close to dial-up speeds
so the parties that aren't invested enough to play their pointless full library of games will just leave

I have 90TB of free space and will only download old zelda games because those are the only things worth saving.

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>>108298645
>he doesn't fill those 90TB full with lolis
It's almost like you are a closeted homosexual.

>>108295207
If they can't afford the bandwidth needed to host PS3 and Xbox360 games, then don't even host them. What is the actual logic here?

>>108295207
Link the post, pussy.

>>108295207
I made a TUI to easily download myrient stuff in parallel and capped my gigabit link downloading over 9000 roms per second. I’m not sorry.

>>108295239
Myrient were very driven by a personal desire for giving everyone the optimal, premium experience of being able to download freely and easily but this was always going to be abused.
What SHOULD have happened was the most popular and mass downloaded files got distributed as torrents and then the less popular and niche stuff (magazine scans, promo videos, beta editions, random leaks etc) would be served as direct downloads.
The popular stuff would probably get seeded at least enough to offset the worst of the server costs, while the niche stuff wouldn't cost much to host at all. Doing that system or something like it would have saved the site very easily in the long run, to say nothing of giving small incentives to host/seed to other likeminded individuals.

I do find it strange that their costs were so high though, even at the current inflated prices for hardware actually outright buying that much storage and paying for bandwidth should be as expensive as that right? I'm no expert so I could be wrong.

>>108295239
>as long as they seed
Is the average person on CGNAT even capable of seeding files?

>>108298815
if you're behind cgnat you can only seed to people without nat

>>108298634
>anime poster from reddit
kys srsly

>>108298665
killing the business of premium myrient downloaders earning patreon bux with no survivors

>>108295239
fpbp. Put it in a torrent and quit bitching.

>>108295207
>Retard is complaining that he gets a virus when clicking a download button
lmao, the retard doesn't even use an adblocker.

>>108295207
Kek

>>108296665
> vpn
won't work

all information will one day be placed within the confines of openai and scam altman will collect a token everytime you need to get something done. everyone thinks this is about building a machine god or automating jobs, but the only goal is to leech from everything. its credit card fees but for thinking.

>>108297104
torrent is bad for hdd

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>>108299792
you can't take my off grid linux machine away from me

>>108299788
doesn't have to fight off 100% of the leechers as long as it keeps traffic manageable and fucks with the patreon cucks

>>108299799
yes they can

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>>108295207
KWAB

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>>108299829
let them try

>>108295207
Haha. Cope and seethe paypiggy. You're the reason why companies are emboldened to push their AI slops and age verification thing.

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>>108295207
I don't know what this goober is complaining about but have this pic for free.

Works on my machine

>>108298657
based

>>108300106
Based and true

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>>108295239
>as they seed of course

>>108297796
>not my problem
*gets his download privileges suspended for Hit and Run*
heh

>>108295207
only a huge moron would host thousands of roms on web servers when torrents exist

he deserves to get his servers hammered

like, bro, we solved this 20 years ago

>>108298657
based based based

Does it even fucking matter? Everything I saw at Myrient is also up on archive.org, GGN, Retrowithin, etc etc etc.

>>108302983
nigga just shut the fuck up

>>108302742
white people seed

>>108302742
You are a nigger.

>>108295773
Anna literally has 4 websites.
I'm approaching the point of having most of the things that I want. I'll be able to start 2 quite soon.

>>108295252
>Data hoarding will continue until the situation improves (lol)
spbp /thread
Go fuck yourselves.

>>108302742
the true test of a man is when a woman sees your ratio

>>108300106
this, piracy was resolved years ago with torrenting, there is no reason for a retard to hoard all the files. This time was because of poor logistic, but could have been a tantrum, forced to fight in ukraine, dead by ligma, corporate takedown, etc, that would have caused the site to go down.

>>108295676
Where's the second copy then, faggot? Just sitting on your aids-encrusted hard drive with no availability for anyone else?

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>>108303534
The only people that put effort into organization and availability of their torrents are private trackers and they make it their mission in life to prevent anyone outside of their cult to get the files.
Sharing is dead.

>>108303548
And for good reason

>>108303568
And this reason is...?

>be retard
>userbase also retarded (mostly thirdies from brazil and india)
>don't use torrents
>seethe
some such cases

>>108303594
>>108302742 this
you don't want 1000 poos leeching, just look at what happend to myrient, total unregulated abuse. Gated communities, limited rates, n downloads per session, and many others rules are not for being assholes, but to be reasonable.

>>108303671
Ok?
This has nothing to do with private trackers being so hostile to newcomers though.
Force people to seed or you ban them, but make it possible to join, these are not mutually exclusive.
The truth is that private trackers tards are a bunch of power tripping losers.

>>108295207
You either have an offline LAN and a brain or you don't. You don't. Consider this, this is all basically stolen from the people who made it who got less money because of that and you are trying to moralise about how you steal it? Don't get me wrong dispite having worked on popular software that was widely pirated IDGAF anymore but the hypocrisy is a bit glaring.

>>108303696
Nah they are right, you are moving into an era where you will get copyright bountyhunters freelancing.

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>>108303730
>Meanwhile, people are just dumping entire corporations trade secrets onto public AIs
why can't more people be as smart as you

>>108303696
sorry but no girls allowed

Usecase for hate and not love?

>>108295207
You niggers are one of the most retarded faggots I know.
Soon you won't be allowed to use any compute and I will be sitting in my bunker playing games, listening to music, watching movies OFFLINE, while you'll be begging for a morsel of new bits and bytes.
Take and seed whatever you can, as long as you can.

>>108297008
t. Xoomer

>>108303178
>>108303229
>>108303449
>>108303671
>sharing
What is that, communism?

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>>108299799
No, but they can just wait until you die and the house clearance firm throws all your hard drives in the trash. Zoomers don't know what torrents are and wouldn't care about game "preservation" even if they did. It's pretty much inevitable that when today's 40 year olds begin dying off, things will start being lost forever. Hell, that's already happening. Once you get past the 6th gen of consoles and into the era of digital games, title updates and DLC, the amount of stuff that's been preserved drastically goes down. Tons of stuff from Xbox Live and Playstation Network is already unavailable and unarchived, leaving only the slim hope it'll be found by chance on some old hard drive one day.

>>108304088
>sharing
it can be a tricky concept to grasp by poverty-stricken thirdies. they were taught to fight tooth and nail for scraps, and to keep their fellow man down, just to be sure he doesn't pose threat.

>>108295207
>don't plan for the future goy

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>People were downloading shit like Barbie Horse Adventure 3 and Madden NFL Roster update 10/Handball Simulator thinking they'd play them to completion someday instead of cherrypicking and not wasting space or bandwidth.

>>108295862
It's always the kid who tells everybody "how to get free games" who ruins everything. Some people are mentally retarded and instinctually driven to never keep a secret.

>>108303178
You want White people seed

>>108304349
>No, but they can just wait until you die and the house clearance firm throws all your hard drives in the trash
He'll literally be dead and wont care who takes or what happens to his hard drive atp AI controlled NPC kun.

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>>108295207
>>108295239
>>108295252
All he had to do is:
>pause the website
>make torrents of all his contents
>start super-seeding (to minimize his upload bandwidth and let the downloaders do the uploading)
>put the torrents on the website
>let people download and seed
That's it, and his whole archive would be hoarded by everyone very easily.

>>108304904
are you poor or something? there s 26tb drives and everyone has gigabit at least these days

>>108304979
>all he had to do is [a bunch of retarded bullshit]

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>>108305016
>seething anti data hoarding shill

>>108304952
Ah, a typical brownoid displaying the typical brownoid mentality that everything can burn for all they care if it's not directly benefitting them. No desire to leave a better world for their children and their childrens' children. Just a selfish, gibsmedat attitude and desire for short-term gain at the expense of all else. Calling you an NPC would be compliment. At least those can be programmed with some sort of worthwhile function.

>>108305016
how is any of this more retarded than paying 6k a month for the servers

>>108303950
>he'll be stuck with his limited collection while my local AIs will be generating infinite entertainment for me
sad

>>108304998
You can be the richest man on Earth and still not have enough hard drive space. Nobody can hoard absolutely everything, you have to pick and choose what you want. Why waste a terabyte on every regional Barbie Horse Adventure version when that space is better put to use storing anything else?

>>108305390
>limited collection
You can download more media than you have time to consume in your life onto a 10TB disk but yeah enjoy your AI slop like the brownoid you are.

>>108305403
>You can download more media than you have time to consume
Yeah but my tastes change. I don't know what I'll want to consume 10 years from now, I might not have that hoarded
>muh browns
You're talking about hiding in a bunker I think you can drop the first world pretense

>>108295207
and this is why Private Trackers IS THE WAY.
Let the plebs die alone on the public internet.