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WarOnPrivacy 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years...

>> some person with every album available in high quality lossless FLAC

> nah. WhatCD’s full catalogue has never been recovered.

The loss of WhatCD's torrent database didn't wipe out anyone's library.

JetSpiegel 8 months ago [–]

The value of a library is that it's all in one place.

Burning the Library of Alexandria also didn't burn the other copies, and yet many books were lost.

WarOnPrivacy 8 months ago | [–]

That's a reasonable observation.

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