<story><title>French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-french-isps-to-block-sci-hub-and-libgen-190331/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dTal</author><text>Sure. Mooi were formed in 1999, split in 2006, made a bunch of great music in between, and all that remains is this one song on YouTube: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=gF5cP8S0zOk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=gF5cP8S0zOk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The masters still exist, I&amp;#x27;m told, but that&amp;#x27;s no good to anyone - they won&amp;#x27;t be re-released because it would require too much intellectual property wrangling and nobody cares enough to bother, and sooner or later that hard drive will die and that will be that.</text></item><item><author>yipbub</author><text>Could you give me an example?</text></item><item><author>dTal</author><text>More like hundreds of man-years, when you factor in all the editions, bootlegs etc that are now forever lost to time.&lt;p&gt;This should be a golden age for information preservation. Instead it&amp;#x27;s a dark age. I personally know several eye-wateringly good bands whose catalogs are not available anywhere, at all.</text></item><item><author>vanderZwan</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Those 2 libraries are the closest thing to the modern internet equivalent of the &amp;quot;Library of Alexandria&amp;quot;. I hope they don&amp;#x27;t manage to burn in down.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This just reminds of how in the late nineties and early 2000s we &lt;i&gt;used to have&lt;/i&gt; torrent sites for music enthusiasts with an archive of all the different versions, editions, bootlegs, all painstakingly added and catalogued, representing tens if not hundreds of man-hours worth of work by people who simply &lt;i&gt;love music and wanted to share that love with other enthusiasts&lt;/i&gt;, creating some of the richest catalogues of music and music metadata the world has ever seen. And then it all was destroyed.&lt;p&gt;And this was true for many other topics of interest too.&lt;p&gt;We have burned many digital libraries in the last few decades, and we will probably continue to do so for a while longer.</text></item><item><author>mateo1</author><text>Those 2 libraries are the closest thing to the modern internet equivalent of the &amp;quot;Library of Alexandria&amp;quot;.  
I hope they don&amp;#x27;t manage to burn in down.&lt;p&gt;Yes, for now governments only caught up to DNS level blocking, but more effective measures will follow if we don&amp;#x27;t change the political willingness to withhold knowledge from the masses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xhrpost</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a shame. Looks like this one song managed to get on Google Play: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;play.google.com&amp;#x2F;music&amp;#x2F;m&amp;#x2F;Thsq5haec2ixuguqiep4bnfzcmi?t=Sway_-_Mooi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;play.google.com&amp;#x2F;music&amp;#x2F;m&amp;#x2F;Thsq5haec2ixuguqiep4bnfzcmi?...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-french-isps-to-block-sci-hub-and-libgen-190331/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dTal</author><text>Sure. Mooi were formed in 1999, split in 2006, made a bunch of great music in between, and all that remains is this one song on YouTube: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=gF5cP8S0zOk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=gF5cP8S0zOk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The masters still exist, I&amp;#x27;m told, but that&amp;#x27;s no good to anyone - they won&amp;#x27;t be re-released because it would require too much intellectual property wrangling and nobody cares enough to bother, and sooner or later that hard drive will die and that will be that.</text></item><item><author>yipbub</author><text>Could you give me an example?</text></item><item><author>dTal</author><text>More like hundreds of man-years, when you factor in all the editions, bootlegs etc that are now forever lost to time.&lt;p&gt;This should be a golden age for information preservation. Instead it&amp;#x27;s a dark age. I personally know several eye-wateringly good bands whose catalogs are not available anywhere, at all.</text></item><item><author>vanderZwan</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Those 2 libraries are the closest thing to the modern internet equivalent of the &amp;quot;Library of Alexandria&amp;quot;. I hope they don&amp;#x27;t manage to burn in down.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This just reminds of how in the late nineties and early 2000s we &lt;i&gt;used to have&lt;/i&gt; torrent sites for music enthusiasts with an archive of all the different versions, editions, bootlegs, all painstakingly added and catalogued, representing tens if not hundreds of man-hours worth of work by people who simply &lt;i&gt;love music and wanted to share that love with other enthusiasts&lt;/i&gt;, creating some of the richest catalogues of music and music metadata the world has ever seen. And then it all was destroyed.&lt;p&gt;And this was true for many other topics of interest too.&lt;p&gt;We have burned many digital libraries in the last few decades, and we will probably continue to do so for a while longer.</text></item><item><author>mateo1</author><text>Those 2 libraries are the closest thing to the modern internet equivalent of the &amp;quot;Library of Alexandria&amp;quot;.  
I hope they don&amp;#x27;t manage to burn in down.&lt;p&gt;Yes, for now governments only caught up to DNS level blocking, but more effective measures will follow if we don&amp;#x27;t change the political willingness to withhold knowledge from the masses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Did they ever release their music on CDs?  If so, surely some of those CDs are still out there somewhere and could be ripped, if only they could be tracked down.  I guess that just hasn&amp;#x27;t happened yet though.</text></comment>