SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses

Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by ghaff on Thursday February 11, 2016 @12:32PM (#11081549)

It's generally unfortunate when major batches of content--whether MP3s or an online magazine--end up inaccessible to the future. And I find it a bit worrisome that a relatively small non-profit plays such an outsized role in archiving the Internet.

That said, a huge number of works that people create have always ended up in the trash, thrown out, or archived only in a few obscure places. What makes it a bit frustrating with digital is that it's relatively practical to save so much more--if perhaps not necessarily everything that's even been posted to a public site--but few really good mechanisms (or funding) to do so.

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Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by cJ0th on Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:12PM (#11081799)

I am slightly optimistic that we will find better ways to archive important media in the future. However, there is also the danger that people will get too obsessed with the past and hold onto highly problematic issues that otherwise would just fade away. In other words, archiving stuff promotes all kinds of fundamentalism.

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