Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses
by baddox on Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:01PM
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The trouble is that cultural importance is an aggregation of the preferences and behavior of millions of people, but hosting and backing up digital content requires deliberate action (and money) from individuals. In other words, stuff doesn't just automatically get hosted and backed up because a bunch of people enjoy the stuff.
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Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses
by cJ0th on Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:14PM
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I think we have to accept that life is messy and there won't be a perfect solution but many different tools that enable us to keep more and more stuff alive.
Peer2peer technology could be part of the solution. Spreading stuff on bit torrent doesn't require too much work from an individual.