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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by hoolm on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:48AM (#20172134)
I think this is a fair question, how did a hacker steal data off a minidisk like they claim?
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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by cuu508 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:52AM (#20172385)
From the pitchfork link in comments:

> Unsurprisingly, Nicholas has a theory about this as well. “The situation that makes the most sense to me is that these minidiscs were digitized by a third party so the band could choose material from them for the OKNOTOK box set, and that someone involved at the third party stole the files and traded them,”

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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by jdsully on Thursday June 13, 2019 @04:26AM (#20172758)
Digitized is an odd word choice. I’m pretty sure minidisc was already a digital format.
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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by josteink on Thursday June 13, 2019 @04:54AM (#20172886)
Yeah. I guess “digital transfer” might be more accurate.
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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by josteink on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:01AM (#20172196)
The hackers leaked a minidisc archive.

Everyone has backups, and some of these minidiscs were probably used in the 20th anniversary OK Computer re-master and re-release (OKNOTOK).

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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by Angostura on Thursday June 13, 2019 @04:03AM (#20172665)
The BBC reported that they had previously been digitised and placed in private online storage. Make of that what you will.
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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by vonseel on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:36AM (#20172323)
I assumed they somehow came into possession (stole) the actual minidisks.
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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by kebman on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:49AM (#20172376)
They were using mind reading techniques to remember what was on the minidisc archive....... Ok, I'll show myself out.
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