idk what the obsession with #v4v is about

it's simply not how you do business

- business sets price

- customers buy, or not

- price is periodically adjusted to balance between supply and demand

- profit

not setting a price on an offer is just rude

people are free to disagree and not buy

businesses are free to raise or lower their prices based on their own strategic and financial criteria and projections

anything else is just throwing coins at the busker in the underground train station, and that's the suffering of the artist

artists are always begging, that's how it works, that's why there are galleries and promoters, most of the time their hardest thing is people learning about them, and that's why the content itself is free of copyright so it can circulate and become known and then streaming services and high quality downloads can be sold

bandcamp has been doing this very successfully for years, as has spotify and soundcloud

artists dictate the terms of their licenses... and yet you still see artists like Stellardrone who give away their music as well

anyone who publishes their music, directly, on youtube understands that the tragedy of being an artist is not being known

so, please, don't confuse copyright as a business model, it's not, it's anticompetitive, socialist practice that doesn't help artists at all, and if anything the whole point about v4v is simply acknowledging that artists make their money on delivering the art, and thus promoters and streaming services and pay-for-premium downloading is a thing

it's even a thing in software with gaming!