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! 🧡