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Re:Apple Stole My Music by noonespecial on Thursday May 05, 2016 @10:23AM (#11636330)
Sounds harsh but all I read was that someone had 122 gig worth of files they considered precious to them and no backup.

Computer systems fail for all kinds of stupid reasons. What will you do when that disk fails?

I admit this is a particularly stupid and infuriating reason for data loss, but how little would it cost to have a backup of 122gb?

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Re:Apple Stole My Music by Freaky on Thursday May 05, 2016 @10:41AM (#11636479)
"I recovered my original music files only by using a backup I made"
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Re:Apple Stole My Music by noonespecial on Thursday May 05, 2016 @11:12AM (#11636795)
Ah. I saw they part about needing 30 hours to redownload his collection and thought this was his recovery strategy.

So it all factors down to "this software didn't do what I thought it would; had to restore from backup. Careful everyone" but was then radically over dramatized with "Apple stole all my music!!!"

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