OH NO! **MySpace** lost a decade of music uploads during a server migration
Side note - there are about 10 or so people in the Richmond area who still work for Circuit City.
MySpace Says It Lost Years Of User-Uploaded Music
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/18/704458168/myspace-says-it-lost-years-of-user-uploaded-music
MySpace — the once-dominant social media platform that was largely subsumed by Facebook — may have lost a decade's worth of music uploaded by users, the company says.
Now the company says millions of music files uploaded to the site may have disappeared.
NPR has reached out for comment from MySpace. According to several media reports, it posted a message on its site recently reading, "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. We apologize for the inconvenience."
"More than 50 million tracks from 14 million artists has been lost," reports The Guardian.
The site was purchased by News Corp. in 2005 for $580 million. News Corp. considered acquiring Yahoo and merging it with MySpace but eventually dropped those plans. Instead, it sold MySpace for $35 million in 2011. The site has waned in popularity since its creation, but some members have continued to use it as a place to store music, photos and other media files.
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