His estate held off for a looooonnnnnnggg while but...it is said that groups gain popularity when people can listen to them on youtube and Jimi was losing popularity from most of Jimi's music being off youtube for years (and taken down regularly from youtube rather quickly often by the estate over the years when people put it on the platform)
Countless times I just wanted to hear something from Axis or Electric Ladyland and had to dig for the cd instead of just being able to type it in and jam..
I have most of his CDs but I'd have to dig through a giant pile I have and don't feel like doing that. I wanted to hear Electric Ladyland (the song) so bad about a month ago but couldn't.