Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Why Are Bands Mysteriously Disappearing?" video.

They shouldn't have gone after Napster. I don't think that it's a particular coincidence that they had their best year ever when Napster was fully operating and then they shut it down and the record sales more or less fell off a cliff. Of the albums that I have in my collection, probably half of them came from that year or two when file sharing was a thing before they started to hammer the people doing it. There was a massive catalog of stuff to test out and it made it super easy to find groups because if there was something that you wanted, then it was likely to be in a collection with other things that might also be of interest.
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