People are informing me of e-mails coming from MEDIAFIRE today about how they're going to start classifying accounts as "abandoned" if they don't meet certain criteria, and the offered content of those accounts will be deleted, starting January.
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For decades on the Internet, we've had this situation where a company "helpfully" offers to be the image/sound/file-sharing platform, "generously" allowing users to host important and not so important stuff. In doing so, they become, essentially, libraries, storehouses, archives.
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And then you know what happens? It turns out the "free" service functioning "helpfully" and which has driven out any competition or a fair price-oriented business that could compete, itself closes down or switches to jacking up its prices in a death of competition.
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Which, you know, whatever, right? Except these sites often contain an entire strata of cultural information. Communities tend to use their own preferred services. When ImageShack/Yfrog changed their policies, years of technical information went poof overnight.
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Years and years of information about subjects were completely lost. Here's the top image sharing sites on MySpace in 2006. How many of those are gone?
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So, Mediafire it is this time. Who will it be next time?
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I'm probably dumb, but wouldn't it be possible for you to arrange something with them to host/mirror the "abandoned files" on the Internet Archive? I'm just panicking because of all the stuff that'll be lost.
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-Pornhub thanos snaps more than 3/4s of their stuff
-Pastebin privates or outright deletes pastes deemed "offensive" by incredibly poorly-designed filters
-Mediafire doesn't even make an announcement
-Google Drive on the horizon
will it ever end
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Google sent an email saying that if your drive is inactive after I believe two years they will purge all data
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