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Internet Archive rescues half a million lost MySpace songs
Original: The Internet Archive rescues half a million lost MySpace songs
The Internet Archive has recovered roughly half a million songs that were thought to be permanently lost when MySpace wiped user-uploaded music during a server migration several years ago. The rescued recordings, largely from obscure and independent artists, have been made publicly accessible again. Commenters are welcoming the move as a significant act of digital preservation and a reminder of how fragile early internet-era culture is.
Why now: MySpace's mass deletion of user music was seen as one of the biggest losses of digital cultural history, so the recovery of half a million tracks is major news for archivists and musicians.
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