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These sites operated in a legal grey area. While they were technically copyright infringement, they were often tolerated—or at least ignored—by the industry because they catered to a hardcore fanbase that had already purchased the official albums. The ethos was preservation; if a record label wasn't selling a specific 1985 live bootleg, the fans would preserve it themselves. —serve as digital museums for a band that