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1. dewey · 1790611803 · focus · HN ↗

   > When I came to work for Arrow, I was bringing a lot of awareness of the methods of fan preservationists on the torrent sites

   Very smooth way of using your torrenting skills on your CV.

   1. sedawkgrep · 1790613121 · focus · HN ↗

      I know this is the easy take, but there really are people who are passionate about preservation beyond just acquiring things for their own use.

      I'm not one of those people. :D But I do know one; he's a professional librarian.

      1. dewey · 1790613632 · focus · HN ↗

         Yep, definitely! I know of instances where professional archives and libraries work with specialized torrent sites to archive content directly and these days that's sometimes necessary with how content is locked down, games are dependent on a server or DRM schemes don't make archiving easy.

         You frequently hear of cases where the last remaining official copy got lost and only due to some fan service (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49694382">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49694382) data could be recovered.

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