I think this works well for the funding of music, but visual arts is much more of a one-on-one patron-artist relationship. If physical works of art could be distributed as easily as CD-quality music on the Internet, would a more decentralized model be possible? Maybe! There is something unique to the visual arts where individual patrons can form lifelong friendships with artists and be the primary sponsor for decades. I think of the relationship between Calouste Gulbenkian and Rene Lalique. I find it hard to believe that that level of patronage could be replicated today using a decentralized model, because the costs would have been enormous and possibly there wouldn’t be enough people who would be interested in helping.