Talk:Hatsune Miku/@comment-43742907-20191115095111/@comment-53539-20191116084910

The only way a Vocaloid vocal can disappear forever is technically if the user removes them... Even though V1 and V2 are unsupported they still work on a computer that can handle them. Though you can't really buy all of them anymore.

The vocals will always exist so long as the files can be used.

There may be a time though V3 or V4 are unsupported in modern Vocaloid, Yamaha's vocal technology all fall under the umbrella term of "Vocaloid" so Yamaha's not relied upon Miku even though Vocaloid has until relied upon sales of Miku. True her leaving will impact the Vocaloid franchise for the time being, but it isn't going to stop from continued development at least. Vocaloid wasn't meant to be a commercial product, and Miku wasn't around in V1.