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tomc1985

That is so infuriating. If the site goes down permanently Soundcloud should swallow whatever costs this incur to pay for their failure of stewardship.

By honoring SC's request Archive Team has allowed the indie Library of Alexandria to burn...

That's what pisses me off about VC. Everything's a fucking product...

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They should ransom the whole database of they're going away. It worked for certain software (Blender), it might for the music too.

Whoa, I've never heard of this, can you expand on what happened with blender?

Blender was developed by Neo Geo for internal use. When they were acquired, the developer tried to sell Blender as a commercial product. During bankruptcy proceedings, the Blender Foundation was founded and bought the source code to release as open source.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)

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