Myspace may have lost over 14 million artists’ music. The struggling social media platform issued a statement regarding lost media due to a server migration. Myspace said, via statement according to TechCrunch, anyone who uploaded music to the platfor…
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MySpace lost 12 years of music and photos, leaving a sizable gap in social network history
It’s 2019 and MySpace is newsworthy again. Unfortunately, it’s for the worst of reasons: massive data loss.
On Sunday, news spread concerning a longtime data issue plaguing MySpace, a site that was once the internet’s leading social network. Millions of songs, photos, and videos that were uploaded to the site before 2015 were lost during a data migration, according to MySpace, with no chance of recovery.
“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,” read a since-removed announcement on the website. “We apologize for the inconvenience.” Read more…
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