It honestly disturbs me that Myspace, Justin.tv, and these other companies don't seem to ever consider shipping their soon-to-be-deceased data to the Internet Archive. Why not help preservation a little? It'd likely be simpler to handle than the oncoming denial of preservation defense that the ArchiveTeam launches. Have there been any examples of companies doing this?
You might think that this is all useless information, but I guarantee we'll look back in likely only a few years and think in horror at all that we've destroyed.
The best art blog about a half decade including a kid who's dead now just disappeared. When Myspace deleted all of their content, I lost all the content of my dead high school friend (turns out you need to back up everyone and thing you care about, not just yourself[1]) and @maxfenton mentioned "The best art blog about a half decade including a kid who's dead now just disappeared.". It's not an isolated problem.
I almost feel like we need a name-and-shame registry and/or public awareness campaign. I'd love to see this written into the user rights of a website when it launches.
"If the website is to be shut down, all publicly accessible content will be sent to the Internet Archive. If you would like to opt out, tick this box."
You might think that this is all useless information, but I guarantee we'll look back in likely only a few years and think in horror at all that we've destroyed.
The best art blog about a half decade including a kid who's dead now just disappeared. When Myspace deleted all of their content, I lost all the content of my dead high school friend (turns out you need to back up everyone and thing you care about, not just yourself[1]) and @maxfenton mentioned "The best art blog about a half decade including a kid who's dead now just disappeared.". It's not an isolated problem.
I almost feel like we need a name-and-shame registry and/or public awareness campaign. I'd love to see this written into the user rights of a website when it launches.
"If the website is to be shut down, all publicly accessible content will be sent to the Internet Archive. If you would like to opt out, tick this box."
[1]: http://smerity.com/articles/2013/deleted_digital_tombstones....