Epic Games is laying off about 830 employees, divesting Bandcamp

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Epic Games is laying off about 830 employees, divesting Bandcamp
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Bought bandcamp just to shelf it? Thanks.

that's not what the word means, they are selling it to Songtradr.

I know they're not literally throwing it out, if that's what you thought I meant. I know they're selling it to someone else, but how often does this result in a good outcome? I'm predicting this is the start of the end of bandcamp. It wasn't even good to begin with, but it was the only unified place to buy music.

I found this article which states

The company is also selling Bandcamp to a music licensing company called Songtradr...

I didn't know about their ownership in the first place.

Yep, that sale was relatively new. Like, in the last year and a half.

Did that with Infinity Blade (Chair) as well because it was ‘competing for users’ apparently.