From MySpace to MyFreeDiskSpace: 12 years of music – 50m songs – blackholed amid mystery server move
Found on The Register on Monday, 18 March 2019
MySpace, the Norma Desmond of social networking platforms, appears to have lost all the music uploaded to the site since its founding in 2003 through 2015, a blunder the company reportedly attributes to a failed server migration.
The lost files – said to amount to 50 million songs from 14 million artists – appear to be unrecoverable. Videos, photos, and other posted content may have vanished too.
Either it's a massive incompetence (no working backups) or a cheap excuse for getting rid of old data. The former is possible, but the latter more realistic.