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Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by jorvi on Saturday June 01, 2024 @12:57PM (#40547321)
> In 100 years iTunes may be dead, but there will be some person with every album available in high quality lossless FLAC. Same with Netflix and it's bit starved encodes.

Yeah, nah. WhatCD’s full catalogue has never been recovered.

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Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by eisa01 on Saturday June 01, 2024 @01:41PM (#40547655)
But the successors still have stuff iTunes don't have, and there's even new uploads of old releases that What didn't have ;)
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Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by WarOnPrivacy on Saturday June 01, 2024 @01:31PM (#40547585)
>> some person with every album available in high quality lossless FLAC

> nah. WhatCD’s full catalogue has never been recovered.

The loss of WhatCD's torrent database didn't wipe out anyone's library.

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Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by JetSpiegel on Saturday June 01, 2024 @08:12PM (#40550263)
The value of a library is that it's all in one place.

Burning the Library of Alexandria also didn't burn the other copies, and yet many books were lost.

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Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by WarOnPrivacy on Monday June 03, 2024 @09:27AM (#40562426)
That's a reasonable observation.
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Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by thowawatp302 on Sunday June 02, 2024 @02:12AM (#40551804)
By virtue of being a private torrent tracker, WhatCD never had that full catalog, itself. The members did and what you consider to be an inability to recover is only because the torrents were never remade. The same thing would happen if the tracker was up and there were no seeds.
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