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Sharing, preservation and licensing: Data loss

The pace of technological advance has resulted in ever more obsolescence as new developments overtake and make redundant existing technologies. This is a particular problem with computer software when a new version of a software product is unable to read a file in the superseded version. Also, if a software manufacturer ceases production, there may be no alternative newer operating platform.

What term most accurately describes the data loss phenomenon described above?

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