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."
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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.https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1107306991066759168 …
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Wait, there's still a myspace?
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Sort of! Acquired by News Corp in 2005 for $580M. In 2011, major layoffs preceded a sale to an ad targeting firm for $35M, 6% of the sale price. More layoffs, then sold to Time Inc in 2016 for an undisclosed sum, and then Time Inc was sold to Meredith Corp the following year.
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Give me the contact of the salesperson. Definitely a master
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This is funny for some, but to me it is devastating. My father was tragically murdered around 12 years ago, before Facebook was really a popular thing. He instead had a MySpace, and keeping it alive in his memory meant everything to me. I'm devastated by the loss of his memories.
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I’m so sorry to hear that, and you’re not the only person I’ve heard from with stories of lost loved ones. There’s nothing funny about this to me.
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Thank you. It really hurts, I'm seeing so many jokes about this but honestly I'm glad that someone understands how bad this is... It just... Really hurts right now. This isn't okay at all.
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It’s like SoundCloud for hipsters
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I thought Soundcloud was Soundcloud for hipsters
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Bandcamp is SoundCloud for hipsters. Myspace is SoundCloud for nostalgic mega-hipsters.
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This convo is great.
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Opening comments was not a disappointment
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Dammit Tom defrag once in awhile
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Tom took his $500 million & ran years ago.
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hes a instagram photographer now
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A talented photographer with a significant percentage of a billion dollars at his disposal. Nothing but respect to him.
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Nothing but respect for my space Tom
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