Storage and Retrieval System for my Personal Porn Video Collection
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I'm trying to figure out the best system to store my personal video porn collection.
For past 5 Years I've stored all my mid-full length video clips in a system of 20 different category folders of my choosing. Each time I download a new video I rename it a 01-10 rating filename prefix based on my own personal "boner scale" followed by an underscore_Insert Video Title underscore_Insert Studio Name.extension so for example "10_Fearless-Cum-Scenes-Bonus_TIM.mov." That keeps everything 1 of 20 category folders with each file ranking on a scale of 1-10 within that folder.
PROS
Easy systematic storage and retrevial of some 3TB of collected porn I like to watch.
Instant previewing of any given video using "file click+space bar" on a Mac which plays the video as an instant preview (no scanning, pause or rewind options with preview - just a quick view from the from head of video - with audio, running until you stop by pressing the SPACE BAR again.) If you like what you see, just double click the file to open in Quicktime 7 (my personal preference)
IMHO Quicktime 7 is a GREAT playback tool because it not only allows looping of just certain sections of the video using the timeline sliders on any open video (say the cum scene only or looping the entire video over and over if I so choose), but it also allows you to open and watch as many simultaneous videos you want (or your video card can handle) at one time.
(If I do this, I usually do so with the sound off - 10 bad porn audio tracks running at once is enough to kill any boner - and someone might hear you and think WTF?As a HUGE ADDED BONUS Quicktime 7 Player also allows very basic IN-APP INSTANT VIDEO EDITING of any MOV files again using the selection sliders on the playback bar - then using the standard Mac CUT and PASTE commands then hit SAVE AS. I can quickly put together any rough cut edited video containing just the good parts of any video I'm watching instantly - without the need for any fancy video editing software. This is limited to CUTS ONLY (no dissolves or fades or effects, and it doesn't work with every video, but it's an AWESOME option to have on ANY video player. (BTW - Quicktime 10 DOES NOT DO ANY OF THIS).
CONS
Sometimes I can't remember which category folder I stored a particular video in, especially if it fit multiple of my 20 categories.
It's difficult to near-impossible to re-seed video clips once they have been renamed and/or separated from the torrent file. (but I still do my fair share of seeding of new content - or - via a ONE TIME, ONE MONTH seedbox rental where I downloaded 300-400 high-demand, low-seeder videos of ANY TYPE in constantly changing batches and seeded them 'round the clock for one whole month…I started out with a weak 3.0TB D/L and 2.3 U/L 0.83 ratio and ended the month with a 9TB D/L (most of which I just deleted) and a 17TB U/L 1.85 ratio! Only cost me one month's seed-box rental, and a little work - but now I can download WHATEVER for the next 5 years (at my current pace) before I ever run the risk of falling below .80 ratio again. Yes, I did download a TON of junk videos in that month - which I just deleted...but it left me ultimately with enough seeding credits now to download 500% of my original total 3.0TB lifetime GT.ru downloads for "free" before I ever drop below the minimum. Using this method, I simply did literally 5-years of seeding in just one month. I didn't cheat either - that was a legit uploading/seeding credit. [we'll see how long that tidbit takes to get deleted off the forum]
There's my system it's all legit and it's what worked for me [leaving me with an 8TB download credit]. I'm sure there are many strong opinions for other video tools and systems. The purpose of this post was to start a constructive discussion on Various Video Storage and Viewing Systems rather than spark a Mac/PC or VLC vs Quicktime war of words. Just share whatever works for you without judgments about other people's systems.
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Now that I have GigaFast broadband, I'm going back to using a NAS for storage, PLEX and torrents. Before it wasn't worth it for torrents.
I store my porn by studio, for the most part. Within each studio folder, I have movies and scenes folders.
I also have a Vintage folder for studios no longer around. In some cases, even if the studio is still around (Falcon and some others), I put very old videos in the vintage folder.
For videos I have no idea, I do by basic categories by body type; Twink, Jock, etc.
I also do separate TV and movies folders.
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do cloud providers scan for copyrighted content? I have a lot of files on mega.nz.
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Some do, but it mostly depends on the type of file. Movies and music will most likely get you, but less likely with other files.
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Id be cautious about cloud storage…especially the big ones like Dropbox, One Drive, Google Drive, Google Photos, My Cloud, etc. Most have notices about ANOT ALLOWING Adult Content on the servers (usually written in the tiny print on the user agreement). because of nightmares like the following....
I was a juror who sat on a case involving two men who stored adult content on a OneDrive account which automatically physically backed that data on the Microsoft OneDrive servers, where some AUTO-BOT tagged a few images for involving minors involved in child pornography, both of whom lost and had to plead guilty and serve a multi-year term in jail. There is wider and wider use now of these data mining auto-bots based on HUGE databases of illegal porn content, especially involving underage participants that are federally mandated deployment to all the big cloud data farms.
A buddy of mine recently had his main email account permanently closed by Google (it was a private domain hosted by Gmail) for storing his personal porn image collection on Google Photos (which currently has no ban on adult material, BUT that backs up to your Google Drive account, which DOES have an obscenity content ban. When he contacted Google to ask why his entire GMAIL account, including Good Drive no longer worked they cited inappropriate adult content posted to his Google Photos account - specifically over racially sensitive photos, and images possibly involving minors all of which were machine detected by data monitoring auto-bots. So he permanently lost his main private email address, everything stored on his Google Drive and his entire porn image collection - all wiped out in a second.
As a result of these two cases and other horror stories I've heard, I keep my entire porn collection (Videos and images) stored on an external hard drive that I disconnect from whenever I go on the road with my laptop. Yes, I'd luv to see porn when I'm on the road, but it just isn't worth going to jail over.
BTW I personally also posted over 125 new content torrents of homemade collections of various collections of fave video clips. 40 of which have been taken down due to copyright infringement. I would wager a big bet that those were all caught by auto-bots also, then reported to GT.ru to flag for removal.
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Before I had a VPN service, one day I got a call from my crappy small town Internet Service Provider who said that apparently someone (they didn't say who, but I'm sure it was though an auto-bot) detected that "someone at my address had recently downloaded some illegal copyrighted media content." Regrettably, I asked what it was, and then sort of blacked out after hearing " blah, blah, blah…BONUS CUM SCENES." I immediately hung up the phone, and purchased a VPN service that now routes all my internet traffic anonymously through servers in Oslo, Norway (I can pick from any server around the world). This service is so effective, that months later, when I was having a connection issue I called my ISP for help and they said: "ah, we'll have to get back to you, after someone figures out why your modem is pinging in from Olso, Norway (I actually live in a small town near San Francisco)." NOW THAT'S a good VPN when your own ISP CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHERE YOU ARE OR WHAT I'M DOWNLOADING. So now, I download whatever I want, and my ISP is clueless, thanks to my VPN, but I'll never forget getting busted.
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Kiddie porn is legally required to be scanned for, under an international agreement whose name I cant remember. This is required on all social media platforms, cloud services and emails. Suspect images/files are logged and sent to the person's national anti-kiddie porn taskforce and the global taskforce in the US.
Free services (and some paid) tend to have deals with movie and music industries to scan as well, to help pay the bills.
There are paid services that won't scan for anything other than what is legally required, but these can be expensive.
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I used to have all my precious porn on an external WD 4TB. One day shit happened with my PC starting up and shit so I unplugged the External USB 3.0. Restarted and plugged my WD 4TB back in. To my horror, the drive wasn't even recognized. I was an emotional wreck, at the time I did not know I could use a program to simply restore the drive, as the idiot I was at the time, I located the disc and reformatted it back to NTFS. Then I found a program that will pull all the data that was lost. The only thing is it pulls only files, not folders, and it also has it's own renaming system. With 3TB of porn, I'm left to watch the clips and intro's and hope to remember the names/studios or be lucky enough that they show credits in the beginning. Sorry about the long story, I swear it's noT cloudy here at the momenT.
Anyone who has spent blood sweat and tears like I did and cherishes their collection should go with a RAID system. Preferrably NAS or whatever is capable to act as your personal network.
I hope anyone with issues or problems such as this get's their files back. If you have any questions or need help in this shituation shoot me a load… JK Send me a message and i'll do my best to ATTEMPT to assist. This looooooong techy message looks like i've been chillin with my Tina Turner barbie doll but I swear I haven't. LOL :police: :love:
