See, you're taking the wrong message from the article entirely, and I suspect so was the OP. The point of the article isn't to make you care about Bandcamp in

See, you're taking the wrong message from the article entirely, and I suspect so was the OP. The point of the article isn't to make you care about Bandcamp in particular, though it's clear the author does. It's to point out the fact that if there is something you DO care about, how acquisitions and corporate plays can and will destroy it. You could replace Bandcamp with Steam, or HN or any other entity. That's the point. Not the particulars of Bandcamp itself. People here get so lost in the weeds and don't actually read what the message of the article is.