Piracy gives access but is not the silver bullet for preservation. Hard drives can and will fail. Cloud storage is largely dependent on whoever owns that server, and those can fail too overtime. Piracy works as long as people regularly maintain their digital collection, but some collections get lost and fall under the crack. Physical media preservation should be considered to be primary and piracy secondary as it is more to give people access.
Piracy gives access but is not the silver bullet for preservation. Hard drives can and will fail. Cloud storage is largely dependent on whoever owns that server, and those can fail too overtime. Piracy works as long as people regularly maintain their digital collection, but some collections get lost and fall under the crack. Physical media preservation should be considered to be primary and piracy secondary as it is more to give people access.
Physical media doesn’t last either. Hard disks can be replicated and replaced in a NAS.