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Yeah now that Megaupload's gone how will we ever watch Ghostbusters or play SNES roms?
by mattdeboard 15y ago
Yeah now that Megaupload's gone how will we ever watch Ghostbusters or play SNES roms?
- brador 15y agoThey were of course, just examples. Consider if Youtube were to shut down overnight. Yes we'd lose a lot of generally available content (hop on Ebay for a copy of Ghostbusters), but we'd also lose a lot of amazing content that you can't buy on Ebay or get anywhere else. It's THAT stuff that's a sad loss. Then the question is, if it's not commercially available, does it still have any value at all? I argue yes. I've learnt more from free files and videos some random user has uploaded than I have from commercial products. Once gone, I can never access those resources ever again. Ever. Because it's bits and bytes, once erased, it's gone forever.
- moe 15y agoYou're overestimating the size of MegaUpload. Most people had never even heard of it, and if you want to store something valuable permanently then it should be obvious to put it in multiple locations.