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		WarOnPrivacy on June 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years... >> 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.

JetSpiegel on June 2, 2024 [–]

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.

WarOnPrivacy on June 3, 2024 | [–]

That's a reasonable observation.

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