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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by LoganDark on Monday March 10, 2025 @06:53PM (#43327058)
> If you really are constantly seeing this then that says a lot about the corporation using severely outdated practices.

They probably just used now-outdated practices before those practices were outdated. This happened in the past, remember. Sure, the cloud is a thing today, but was the cloud such a thing 5, 10, 20 years ago? Do you really think it's their fault for not knowing in advance how much of a thing the cloud would one day become? Oh, how outdated. Sheesh.

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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by dgfitz on Monday March 10, 2025 @07:35PM (#43327454)
Nope. I’ll not list off all the DVCS implementations that existed 20 years ago, you should look it up. That is not an excuse.
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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by codetrotter on Monday March 10, 2025 @08:36PM (#43327903)
Ah yes, git and mercurial – the perfect place to save 3TB of binary data that changes weekly.
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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by LoganDark on Monday March 10, 2025 @11:47PM (#43328975)
You know tech savvy was not really a thing back then for the everyday uneducated person, right? You kind of had to have been a geek to have known this stuff. There are a number of dead-simple cloud solutions today, but you cannot just scold, say, WB for not using a company cloud back in checks Wikipedia 1993!
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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by mulmen on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @12:54PM (#43334494)
Ok but preserving media seems like a thing Warner Brothers should be really good at. Why did Warner Brothers have an everyday uneducated person in charge of archival?
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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by LoganDark on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @02:59PM (#43335867)
Why would an archivist back then happen to know computers that intimately? I'd be surprised if the average archivist knew much more than how to do data entry... and I wouldn't even hold it against them if they happened not to know how to do data entry.
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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by mulmen on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @01:08AM (#43340127)
You don't need to be an expert in the technology to ask a few relevant questions like "where is the information stored?" and "what temperature and humidity does it prefer?" Of course WB is famously bad at storing film too so maybe I shouldn't be surprised.
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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by mulmen on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @12:58PM (#43334558)
20 years ago is 7 years after the show ended. I looked it up.
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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by thaumasiotes on Monday March 10, 2025 @08:21PM (#43327797)
> Sure, the cloud is a thing today, but was the cloud such a thing 5, 10, 20 years ago?

Yes, yes, and no.

For example, https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/908:_The_Cloud is from 2011.

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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by LoganDark on Monday March 10, 2025 @11:44PM (#43328960)
The Onion also made some pretty good cloud parodies back in 2012: https://youtu.be/9ntPxdWAWq8

Old animation though I wouldn't necessarily expect to only have been 10 years ago, and 10 years ago I wouldn't expect to be scolded for not using the cloud.

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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by soco on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @04:44AM (#43330433)
I would think policies should also be updated every X years in light of new regulations, new possibilities, new limitations... but who enjoys policies and even updating them? So here we are, everything done "by the book" and losing data because of that.
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