“Anyone who doesn’t think this is going to happen to YouTube is kidding themselves,” Scott added in a tweet.ĭigital archivists - most publicly, the ones at Internet Archive - have been fighting an uphill battle this year, having been tasked with preserving millions of photos Flickr had marked for deletion in February, and years’ worth of “adult content” banned abruptly from Tumblr in December.Īndy Baio, founder of the XOXO Festival and the former chief technology officer of Kickstarter, shared MySpace’s official version of the data loss on Twitter but immediately questioned it, writing, “I’m deeply skeptical this was an accident. ![]() The Internet Archive’s Jason Scott criticized Myspace’s mishandling of “10 years of unique digital music,” and compared it to Google’s recent decision to wipe many of the public posts, images, video, and account data from its failed Google+ social network. ![]() The news comes at a time when preservation of web history is a particularly hot topic. i hope one of my bandmates has a copy of those tracks - James Vincent March 18, 2019 ![]() I feel conflicted! it's not music i want anyone to listen to but i'm still embarrassed-nostalgic about it. Just checked my teen band's page and yep, the music is all gone!
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