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Re:Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean ... by m-p-3 on Saturday September 30, 2023 @09:57AM (#37715478)
> One negative thing about bandcamp is that artists/labels/bandcamp can remove anything at anytime for any reason, so things you paid for can straight up disappear.

That seems borderline illegal.. I can't imagine Valve removing a Steam game from someone's library if they already bought it without the Internet giving them a lot of bad press, they'll just delist the item from being purchased.

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Re:Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean ... by iggldiggl on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:32AM (#37762827)
Given that Bandcamp does allow downloading your purchases (indeed, I've only ever used them that way), I suppose they could argue that anything beyond a download immediately after purchase was only ever just a convenience feature.

If they get a lot of customers that effectively treat them as a streaming service, tough, I suppose I can see that there might be a certain impedance mismatch of expectations there.

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