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There has to be an easier way.

Doing it as a collective society. Seizing the means of production. Seizing control of digital media and working towards long term preservation.

Thank you pirates, digital presevationists, and data hoarders for doing the honorable work of preserving the media we have, but this is an expensive hobby only available to the few that can afford it, and there's no way for poor folk to be able to do this besides torrenting what is available or seizing the means of production.

Everything we have from the past exists either from tireless maintenance or due to exeptionally lucky irrepeatable circumstances.

This cannot be changed. You can only reframe your thinking to this is the price of keeping media but I can cut costs by two thirds if I'm willing to risk losing it forever.

I mean depending on how much data you have you can do 3-2-1 with two external drives, one stored encrypted at a friend's house. Or buy a cloud storage account for around $5/month for several TBs.

I think storing only what you probably can't get again helps this. My only mirrored drives are 1TB which I accumulated over the years from mine and other peoples computer upgrades. They're really cheap otherwise. They mirror stuff like family photos, important documents, etc.

The encrypted online backup for it is like 5 dollars a month.

It's very expensive and a little silly to spend so much to mirror marvel movies or whatever mainstream media that is incredibly easy to find anywhere unless you have actually rare stuff or are a doomsday prepper. I just have a list of what I have downloaded and can also just pull my torrent history or save my .torrent files which are tiny and get all my movies and games back later.