MP3.com used to be the central music hub for independent artists. It was similar to what Bandcamp is now, but with charts. Well, they ran into some legal issues, and eventually wound up having to sell the site. The new owners wanted to take the site in a completely new direction, and they were going to delete all of the songs. The Internet Archive begged the new owners to allow them to take over and host the content, but they were just not interested. So all of those thousands and thousands of songs got deleted.
An extreme case of this was MP3.com.
MP3.com used to be the central music hub for independent artists. It was similar to what Bandcamp is now, but with charts. Well, they ran into some legal issues, and eventually wound up having to sell the site. The new owners wanted to take the site in a completely new direction, and they were going to delete all of the songs. The Internet Archive begged the new owners to allow them to take over and host the content, but they were just not interested. So all of those thousands and thousands of songs got deleted.