Tomado del newsletter de MusicREDEF:
Whether MYSPACE lost as many as 50 million user-uploaded songs through its own incompetence or simply dumped them, as more than a few internet pundits believe, is somewhat beside the point. Whether you were aware, until a day or two ago, that MySpace still existed is similarly unimportant. Let's put notions of quality aside as well. Maybe a few of those 50 million songs were as good as the 10,000th-best song currently residing on SOUNDCLOUD and maybe they weren't, but that's not for me, you or MySpace to decide. What matters today is that as many as 50 million songs are gone and that a website that, for better or worse, still wants you to share and entrust your memories with it is responsible for losing them. And having apparently had as long as a year to think of a way to explain itself, the site had exactly this to say: "We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest that you retain your backup copies.” Seriously. A corporate com…