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Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group (www.billboard.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7719730

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7719728

Here it is: https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

That's pretty dope. Would you mind posting a photo or two of your 4xSSD setup? Also, what are they hooked up to, a mini PC?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    Nope, they are hooked up to my retired gaming rig xD retired because my physical health makes it hard to sit in front of the PC and game 😭 poor RTX 3080 just sitting there...

    Anyway, here you go! There is room for five more 2.5 inch SSDs in the back. I've even seen somebody mod this chassi to hold 22 HDDs he he.

    Oh, and the software part: 4 x 4TB drives made into one 16TB logical volume with LVM, on top off which there is a LUKS container for whenever my home is raided (not that encryption helps legally speaking, unless you have plausible deniability...). I figured I don't need redundancy with SSDs and none of the data is really anything that I couldn't just torrent again. Maybe I'll do an offline backup of them down the road.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Regarding encryption, I'm no lawyer, but I always figure if I were ever wanted by the authorities, it would at least give me a choice whether or not to comply. On the other hand, anything that's not encrypted may as well already be compromised. The other thing encryption buys you is peace of mind if and when you ever sell those drives on the secondary market.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Thanks for the valuable input! :)

    I always encrypt all my drives - external or internal - because at the very least, I have nothing to loose with today's computing power. The overhead isn't noticeable for me once the drives are decrypted, which takes two seconds with my Ryzen 5800 x3d.

    Regarding what you said specifically about the peace of mind that it gives me if and when I were to sell the drives: YES. encryption can even be used as a method of securely wiping scrambling content.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yup, and for SSDs specifically, I've read online that once you've stored info on the device unencrypted, then down the road you use a software tool like shred, there's no way to guarantee nothing is left in the clear because of wear leveling, so it's best to always encrypt them before we start storing anything on them.

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