Posted on 03/18/2019 12:54:48 PM PDT by dayglored
No more partying like it's 2003-2015 on the social network that was once the biggest site in the US.
MySpace may have lost your digital memories in a server migration.
"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.MySpace didn't immediately respond to a request for further comment.
It might seem like a dim and distant memory now, but MySpace was an essential springboard for musicians like Arctic Monkeys in 2005 and the most popular site in the US in 2006. It was got a makeover back in 2013, when it was refurbished and rebranded as a cool place to share music and video.
Oh, wait, it's been over for a while. Nevermind...
I didn’t know MySpace still existed.
Hold on, let me message my MySpace friend, Tom, I’m sure he will get to the bottom of this.
No way they didn’t have any backup.
But yeah, hard to imagine MySpace was only founded 15 years ago—it has been very old news for the last dozen years.
What’s that old saying about backing up?
CIA controlled facebook set out to destroy MySpace from the start. I would not be surprised if they were in on this somehow.
The NSA has them.
Guaranteed.......................they won’t lose them..................
Holy.... that’s....
You just don’t DO this as an online company that preserves and handles data.
This also makes me wonder how much of this was intentional loss. Who or what did they never want sifted through from way back?
Whether accidental or intentional if the loss is as total as implied this will end MySpace.
This is not going to be the only digital debacle. I don’t keep anything I care about or cant replace in the cloud. May be old fashioned, but I believe in hard media/drives and back ups, and even paper copy.
I know some people and even one of our employees USED to work for MySpace.
They even beat Facebook for popularity. The reason why it fell to Facebook? Idiot managers.
I didn’t know MySpace still existed.
im sure those sneaky russians have a copy somewhere,, right¿?
Millennial system administers?
I’m glad that this article was posted just for the Arctic Monkeys. I had completely forgotten about that band. I believe I have some of their MP3s in my archives so if anybody from the band are Freepers, please PM me with your email address, I might have your MP3s!
Only files deleted up to Hillary’s emails. It was an “accident”.
The last (rock) band that I was in (wow, has it been eight years already?!) kept the tracks we cut. I had to snag them from Myspace as they would post them.
Good times...
-PJ
The only guy left accessing that mountain of orphaned data is livid.
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