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Internet Archive Recovers Half a Million 'Lost' MySpace Songs (techspot.com)
The Internet Archive has come to the rescue once again. The nonprofit digital library this week unveiled the MySpace Music Dragon Hoard, a collection of 490,000 MP3 files from 2008 to 2010 on the long-abandoned social media site. From a report: While the recovered tracks make up less than one percent of the music lost by some 14 million artists, it is still a sizable cache weighing in at 1.3TB. The lost songs were given to the Internet Archive by an "anonymous academic group" that had downloaded the music over a three year period to study. When the group learned of the data loss last month, it offered all it had to be preserved.
Hard to believe that 14 million artists stored their only existing copies of their songs on Myspace, with no other backups or local copies.
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I love Internet archive. So much so, that I even throw them a few $$$$ once in a while.
I spent months watching out of copyright movies. (Some are awesome.)
I have downloaded tons of abandoned software.
I have barely scratched the surface of internet Archive.
Keep up the good work.
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