Extract from Affinity 8: 1st December, 1996
The Decline of the MP3 Scene by Paelon

Article: Paelon
Author: The Decline of the MP3 Scene

Ahhh.  The good old days.  When  I  could  go  onto #cdafiles and see 10+ offer
bots delivering every type of rip.  Every day there  was  something  new.   You
could never come close to getting everything released that day.  From August to
early September I couldn't even count the rips.

Those  days  are over.  Maybe everything has been ripped.  Maybe I forgot where
to look.  Or maybe not.  CDAfiles is dead with 1 or 2 offer bots at the most at
any time I've looked.  World  Domination  is idling away.  Nothing much changes
on there.  Some personal sites are Okay.  But they have mostly old stuff.  Some
people rip new stuff.  I know CDA likes this magazine and I think it would help
if they could get rid of members who don't do anything.  I KNOW that  CD's  are
still being made.  I haven't seen anything ripped of New Adventures In High-Fi,
POTUSA:   II,  or  Recovering The Satalites.  Admittedly, you may not like this
music, but I'm sure most of you  have  heard a new song lately where you think:
"Man, someone should rip that."  And no one is.

Basically, in any group, idlers don't help.  If everyone is doing nothing,  get
people who will.  Or fire to inspire.  About the only group I think I see doing
anything  is  RNS.   But not much.  I know lots of stuff I could think of to be
ripped.  But my suggestions are never  heard  (or just not cared about).  Maybe
this article will be.

Addendum by Mr. Mister:

You made a good point:  Fire to inspire.  Exactly what Affinity  went  through.
It  just  so  happens  that  after  a  certain while, people start to fade into
oblivion for one reason or  another.   Perhaps  they  feel that the rest of the
people will make up for their inactivity or no one will even notice.  That  may
be so, but sooner or later they are found and squashed.