Vault fire article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire

Vault fire article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-m... Follow up from this year: https://centralsauce.com/lost-in-the-fire https://centralsauce.com/lost-in-the-fire A previous notable fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire I think the problem with vaults and vault fires is that the original - the master recording - is analog and irreplaceable by definition. All copies theoretically don't encode valuable data still left in the master that might be useful in the future as remastering technologies continue to improve. It's not a digital master where every copy is identical in fidelity. Until we can accurately clone physical objects, there can only be one master copy of an analog recording.