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PSA: Download on your hard drives, never trust online hosting. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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TLDR: Download your content offline before it gets lost forever.

From now on you should never trust online hosting, I started seeing a lot of piracy sources( Streaming websites, torrent indexes,.. Etc) get shut down.

So I highly recommend for all pirates to download anything they want offline to reuse and don't trust keeping it online, sadly for me, a lot of material had been lost as there is almost no online service or piracy service has it( I am talking about material that is 5-10 years old.).

I know that this is not the first time piracy websites/hosts gets taken down but this time feels different as it became aggressive and I feel that in the next months a considerable amount of content are going to be lost.

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[-] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 months ago

To add to this, back that local hardrive up on a REMOVABLE drive, and keep it physically detached. We are all one lightning strike away from near total loss.

[-] lemmywinksthegerbilking@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

or unplug the pc/nas/whatever everytime it's shut down

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Would a surge protector be enough? I've never owned one, but I've considered putting my PC, router and (in the future) NAS behind both a surge protector and a UPS.