mctoasterson@reddthat.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dyingEnglish
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4 months agoThis is where “piracy” is actually the industry’s saving grace. Decades or centuries later, will record labels exist and be well-managed (and flush with cash) enough to preserve archival copies of their artists catalogs? Probably not.
Will obscure weirdos exist all around the world on Usenet, IRC, or seeding torrents? Possibly.
Me, still using a site licensed copy of Office 2007 from a job I had over a decade ago.