I can just redownload, it's not *that* big a deal to me.
I'm a little less blaze' about my hoard, on account of a large chunk being stuff I downloaded 20+ years ago that is now hard (if not impossible) to find. Much of it is of an ephemeral or esoteric nature, my own off-air recordings, or are earlier versions of shows / movies that since been edited for whatever reason, and the original is no longer readily available.
Granted, a lot of the obscure / ephemeral stuff is now showing up on sites such as YT and IA, but then there's the issue of having to redownload everything all over again on a third world Internet connection. This is why I'm one of those weirdos that has backups of their stash on both HDD and DVD-Rs.
To this day I still use DVD-Rs for backups where I'm happy to risk having just the one copy, as I've had excellent experiences with using DVD-R as a long-term storage media.
Of course if I had White Man's Internet and my tastes were a bit more mainstream, I'd probably be more open to redownloading stuff.
My problem is, while most of it I can reaquire... god that would suck.
Just recently passed 200k library items. Yeah, I don't feel like recovering any of that. And some of it is from sources that may no longer exist. For example, I have 40 episodes of Live PD from a pirate streaming site that no longer exists. You could literally just right click and save as too.
Finding full unedited live PD episodes is a pain.
In a similar vein, I am looking for a complete collection of Campus PD. I am missing season 3.
Sticking to this genre, but on the other side of the world, there's one episode of Police Ten 7 I can't find despite most of the series being on YT. There was a radio show down here that played clips from Police Ten 7 and took the piss out of them, and I'm missing a few of my favourites.
A lot of Motorway Patrol NZ is missing too.
Kiwi cops are way more chill than American ones.