A shower thought just hit me today. With all the active archiving projects being launched recently to save historical content from Yahoo Groups, Youtube, dying mailing lists, evidence of human rights abuses, etc. etc., the datahoarders' role has been elevated from a nerd with compulsive hoarding tendencies, into a champion of free speech and preservationist of history. We now boldly go where the corporate interest fails. Our terabytes are finally put to use for the betterment of mankind. Hopefully none of our home rigs fail, we remember to do our 3-2-1 backup correctly, and most importantly to make our loot accessible, because data is useless if not shared.