BasilZero said:
The reasoning was they were trying to put the music into their hands for creators to use in a marketplace. That didnt pan out well because they ended up paying the creators more than they were making back from it - at least from what I heard. Youtube started doing something like it you can say recently with Youtube Shorts. |
Also didn't help when Epic was trying to stamp down on them during their formation of a union:
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
