If:
1. Any service can stream the media to you at whatever price
2. Anyone can pay for the media to be available to anyone
Why would I prefer a subscription as an uploading Creator? (some kind of insurance against popularity maybe? I could see that)
Why would I pay at all as a downloading Consumer?
Honestly asking.
why would you pay?
for premium features:
- on demand streaming
- high bandwidth encodings
- physical products and auxilliary materials (eg, associated art and files used to generate the output, like how Nine Inch Nails did with Ghosts)
this is all well established practices in the internet artistic content delivery business, there is nothing about nostr or blossom that changes that, unless you somehow can make it impossible for them to authenticate users and not be able to restrict delivery, then it is just a charity and you are not a business
i recommend you read Human Action by Ludwig von Mises (yes, you can download a good PDF of it and ebook for free from mises.org)
all marketable things are at base services
i can sell cars, or i can rent cars, but what the customer is paying for is transport, and thus public buses, and air transport are also delivering the same basic service
people like prestige items because they want to look like they are prestige, thus the plethora of stupid products with blings and prominent elite brand names that have turned into broad market items with low actual prices and declining prestige
you don't buy a house to own the house, you buy it to keep the rain and cold out, to stop people stealing your stuff, to store your food, to house your bed, which provides you a comfortable place to sleep
Tao Te Ching chapter 11:
11
We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.
We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.
