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A large number of them never will. Any archive of user-created content ends up dominated by "zombie" works from creators that have moved on from that sort of th

• bogomipz 9y ago
  >"Any archive of user-created content ends up dominated by "zombie" works from creators that have moved on from that sort of thing or aren't terribly concerned with ensuring that their older works remain accessible (if they even still have their own copies)." Except when they are artists and that content is their art and that art is their passion and/or career. It's also how they build awareness and get gigs. We are talking about music not animated gifs and memes. Its unlikely that most artists no longer have the original tracks. The music industry has always had works that have gone out of print often because the record company goes bankrupt. And those out of print works are then reissued often with enhancements. In fact there are record labels whose whole business model is reissues. And at the extreme there are cases where the original master tapes were lost and reissues were cut from secondary sources. It would be unfortunate if SC were to disappear but if it did I doubt any appreciable amount of music would simply be "lost to the dust bin of history."