[dayglored]

This is probably the end of MySpace.

Oh, wait, it's been over for a while. Nevermind...

[dayglored]

MySpace blows away 12 years of content ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[Cowboy Bob]

I didn’t know MySpace still existed.

[Boogieman]

Hold on, let me message my MySpace friend, Tom, I’m sure he will get to the bottom of this.

[9YearLurker]

No way they didn’t have any backup.

But yeah, hard to imagine MySpace was only founded 15 years ago—it has been very old news for the last dozen years.

[avenir]

What’s that old saying about backing up?

[Revel]

CIA controlled facebook set out to destroy MySpace from the start. I would not be surprised if they were in on this somehow.

[Red Badger]

The NSA has them.

Guaranteed.......................they won’t lose them..................

[Advil000]

Holy.... that’s....

You just don’t DO this as an online company that preserves and handles data.

This also makes me wonder how much of this was intentional loss. Who or what did they never want sifted through from way back?

Whether accidental or intentional if the loss is as total as implied this will end MySpace.

[Magnum44]

This is not going to be the only digital debacle. I don’t keep anything I care about or cant replace in the cloud. May be old fashioned, but I believe in hard media/drives and back ups, and even paper copy.

[cuban leaf]

I didn’t know MySpace still existed.

[ßuddaßudd]

im sure those sneaky russians have a copy somewhere,, right¿?

[steve86]

Millennial system administers?

[SamAdams76]

I’m glad that this article was posted just for the Arctic Monkeys. I had completely forgotten about that band. I believe I have some of their MP3s in my archives so if anybody from the band are Freepers, please PM me with your email address, I might have your MP3s!

[rockrr]

The last (rock) band that I was in (wow, has it been eight years already?!) kept the tracks we cut. I had to snag them from Myspace as they would post them.

Good times...

[Political Junkie Too]

I guess that's what happens when one believes that the "my" in MySpace is really theirs.

-PJ

[sparklite2]

The only guy left accessing that mountain of orphaned data is livid.

[Buckeye McFrog]

musicians like Arctic Monkeys

[georgiarat]

My guess is there are some political sensitive photos, videos etc from Democrat Party candidates that were “lost” during this episode.

[zeugma]

This (among other good reasons) is why you do not trust online storage for important data.

[Carriage Hill]