Megaupload was our collective library Of Alexandria

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by brador • 14 years ago

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kmfrk• 14 years ago

And in more positive news, people might have learnt a valuable lesson about redundant storage of valuable data.

moe4• 14 years ago

It also stored our collective culture of the last 2 DECADES.

Umm, no. I don't think MegaUpload was that big...

brador4• 14 years ago

It had textfiles from the old BBS days together with SNES roms. Thats 2 decades if not more. Together with "old" movies (Ghostbusters 1 for example). Trust me, that rabbit hole went deep.

mattdeboard• 14 years ago

Yeah now that Megaupload's gone how will we ever watch Ghostbusters or play SNES roms?

rauljara• 14 years ago

Absurd. When the library of Alexandria burnt, knowledge and culture was lost, never to be recovered.

When mega upload shut down, it just meant you had to switch which service you used. I seriously doubt there was a single bit of knowledge or culture that was on megaupload that still doesn't exist today on some hard drive somewhere.

Yeah, shutting down mega upload raises some pretty serious questions. But the library of Alexandria it ain't.

Metapony• 14 years ago

I'm going to have to buy stock in kleenex tissues if this is how this generation is going to whine. We'll be seeing shutdowns of fertile environments a lot in the future.

Megaupload was our collective library Of Alexandria

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