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MySpace Has Reportedly Lost All Photos, Videos and Songs Uploaded Over 12 Years Due To Data Corruption During a Server Migration Project (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

MySpace may have lost your digital memories in a server migration. From a report: "As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from Myspace," it said in a note at the top of the site. "We apologize for the inconvenience. If you would like more information, please contact our Data Protection Officer at DPO@myspace.com."

Andy Baio, one of the people behind Kickstarter, tweeted that it could mean millions of songs uploaded between the site's Aug. 1, 2003 launch and 2015 are gone for good. "Myspace accidentally lost all the music uploaded from its first 12 years in a server migration, losing over 50 million songs from 14 million artists," he wrote Sunday. "I'm deeply skeptical this was an accident. Flagrant incompetence may be bad PR, but it still sounds better than 'we can't be bothered with the effort and cost of migrating and hosting 50 million old MP3s,'" Baio noted.

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  1. They were still around? by Daerath · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real story is that MySpace is still operational at all. I thought it shut down years ago.

  2. Unbelievable by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I mean that literally. It's impossible to believe there are literally no backups at all, still less that this was all lost as a result of a server migration (what is this, is it run on an old 166MHz Pentium in the closet? Did they take the 40Mb IDE hard drive out of one containing EVERYTHING ON MYSPACE and slot it into the brand new spiffy Intel Core i5 they bought from eBay?)

    The real question is why does MySpace not want to restore the old data? To which the answer could be anything from "They want to reduce bandwidth and storage costs because they're broke" to "They found a shitload of stuff that could get them into trouble and have no time to sift through decades of data."

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  3. How much did you pay to store them? by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 4, Insightful
    You are not a customer of MySpace. You are the product. You paid nothing to store your tracks in the cloud. They did it, hoping they can sell your eyeball time.

    It is not valuable anymore to MySpace. So they deleted the data you up loaded.

    If those tracks are valuable to you, you would taken proper backups or paid someone to store it properly.

    You paid them nothing. They owe you nothing.

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  4. By all means by guygo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But don't let this put you off keeping all your data on the cloud. Who needs local files, amIright? Local files are so hard to manage... so put 'em on the cloud so the next time some underpaid operator forgets a command-line switch you can lose it all.

    1. Re:By all means by doconnor · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Local files got lost at a higher rate then then cloud. The difference is when you lose your local files, it doesn't make Slashdot.

  5. Nothing of Value, But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How the actual fuck could they lose everything? Why do the not have any backups?

    What the actual fuck?

  6. Piracy as backup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There are plenty of things (like old Doctor Who episodes and the first Superbowl broadcast) that only exist today because unauthorized copies were made. The continued extension of copyright terms and DRM measures make the loss of large numbers of cultural artifacts not just possible but inevitable.