The MySpace, one of the first social media and especially popular among young musicians, before Facebook took over, announced that it had accidentally lost music, video and photo files for 12 years.
Η A huge loss occurred during the transfer of data to a server, resulting in all the files that users had "uploaded" up to about three years ago being lost and probably never being made available on the internet again.
An estimated 50 million songs were lost by 14 million artists. Some skeptics have questioned whether it was a mistake or just that MySpace no longer wanted to put in the effort and cost of hosting 50 million old ones. MP3.
MySpace, which apologized for the loss, according to the BBC and the Athenian News Agency, was founded in 2003 and attracted millions of users in 2006, making it the most popular website in the US, surpassing even the search engine. of Google. His strong point was that he was the ultimate platform for "uploading" and promoting new music, helping to bring out several young musicians such as Kate Nash and the Arctic Monkeys.
In 2005, MySpace was acquired by NewsCorp for $ 580 million, and in 2011 it was sold to advertising company Specific Media for only $ 35 million. Although most people have forgotten about it, some people still use it as a digital music record.
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