Rockstar, Necrosoft and other game devs slam Epic and Songtradr for "trashing" Bandcamp as layoffs announced

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Nicklin's colleague and Die Gute Fabrik co-founder Douglas Wilson added that it was "infuriating to watch large corporations gut one of the most valuable communities/services on the internet."

We've been here before. Remember mp3.com? For those who don't, imagine if somebody bought Bandcamp and then deleted all of the music.

eMusic as well. Still seems to be around, but I don't see it as being viable anymore the way things are going.

I remember subscribing to eMusic for some number of song downloads a month and downloading stuff from artists I'd never heard of to use up my downloads at the end of the month. All MP3s, still got them and still listen to them once in a while.

Definitely. I found so many unknown artists from their human-curated recommendations that you just won't find on the streaming services anymore. I rely on KEXP for new music now, which is great, but just kinda...slower I guess.

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