I've started a fundraiser on GoFundMe for people to help me recoup money from data preservation file hosting costs: Donate here!

I'm also known as ResourcesMaterial elsewhere online: Since 2009, I've been working hard under that name to publicly preserve various popular and obscure media (Primarily audio, mostly music.) from a variety of different sources (Typically software, programs and video games.) across YouTube and MediaFire, with my aim to help prevent media from becoming lost to time offline.

Circa mid-to-late 2022, I decided that I would expand my preservation efforts to full product uploads (Consisting of rare / defunct / discontinued / out-of-production items.) on Internet Archive, in addition to my other media uploads on YouTube and MediaFire. As of mid February this year, my main focus is saving royalty-free songs in Digital Juice's audio-related C.D. and D.V.D. products from becoming lost media, after the company abruptly closed doors in January 2024 and ceased all official access to their products in the process.

In order to store lots of this data online (Amounting to hundreds upon hundreds of gigabytes.), I have a MediaFire Pro subscription (U.S. $87.00 / U.K. £68.75 per year.), which is absolutely vital for increasing the crucial storage space required for me to archive thousands of files for everyone to conveniently access and download. This plan renews on 16 June each year, and this expense, on top of all the 50+ Digital Juice physical products I've been buying from eBay this year, has left me rather short on cash.

For over 10 years, all my purchases involving media archival and preservation have been done entirely out of my own pocket. Slowly but surely, this has run me dry of spare money, to the point where I'm at today now running scarce on cash. Going forward, facing all the mounting costs of my work independently simply isn't viable.

I warmly ask for donations in this fundraiser to help me financially recover from recent file hosting expenses. If you value my data preservation work, or simply like archival endeavours in general, please consider assisting me here and donating.

By sending a donation, you won't just be helping me, but also helping to ensure both current and future generations have access to media which otherwise runs a big risk of fading into significant obscurity, being gated behind massive paywalls / hoarded by strictly private collectors, and becoming outright lost media.

I post updates about my preservation efforts on ResourcesMaterial's X / Twitter feed and YouTube channel Community tab. Feel free to browse those places before committing to a donation, if you'd like to see historical evidence of my archival work over the years from past to present.

Thank you very much for any and all support, it's deeply appreciated! 🧡

🆕 2 Matlock Bath photos are now available across 95+ products in my merch shop! 🛒

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📸 Tree Stump Perspective 🌳

📸 Tree Between Two Trunks 🌳

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🆕 2 Matlock Bath photos are now available across 95+ products in my merch shop! 🛒

📸 Down The Wooden Hand Rail 🐞

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🆕 2 Matlock Bath photos are now available across 95+ products in my merch shop! 🛒

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📸 A Streak Of Sunlight - Shot 1 ☀️

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I highly advise against buying any items from eBay user alberto9360.

I don't have a habit of doing any kind of call-out / "exposed" stuff, but I'm going to make an exception here due to my personal experience with this eBay seller.

Long story short: I purchased 2 StackTraxx music products they listed as "Very Good Condition", and what I received were items containing mould and discs with damaged data.

One of the items was particularly disgusting, its outer card sleeve filled with excessive amounts of mould, along with a wet inner case and discs covered in wet black dirt.

After I left justifiable negative feedback and contacted them via eBay messaging, they refuse to give me refunds, are accusing me of lying and presenting false photo evidence, and they've even had the cheek to threaten getting police involved, despite no wrongdoing on my part.

Make no mistake, I will not be silenced by bully tactics from a dishonest seller. During early next week, I plan to report this bad seller to eBay via E.mail. I'll also be enquiring with both eBay and PayPal regarding possible refunds.

Next week, I'll be taking significant time to create a comprehensive document covering various aspects of this issue, and plan to do a voice commentary YouTube video addressing this matter more thoroughly.

After my video is done and dusted, I will be sharing it across my community / social media accounts, for greater exposure and to warn others of this dodgy seller.

Based on other negative feedback they've received from someone else, it seems that they have a bad habit of shipping discs in poor conditions. In hindsight, I should have checked for this feedback first, and not ever gotten involved in buying anything from them.

Avoid buying from alberto9360! 😠

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🆕 2 Matlock Bath photos are now available across 95+ products in my merch shop! 🛒

📸 Path Past The Posts - Shot 1 🌳

📸 On The Overpass 🌉

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