Put up a webseries online for free but make the DVD with bonus features a Kickstarter exclusive? Bonus features pop up on YouTube two days later Give away MP3s on a pay-what-you-want basis but charge money for CD/vinyl? Torrent of the FLACs appears immediately
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Put your fanfic behind a Patreon paywall for early access before posting it on AO3 and Tumblr a week later? There's a whole website to get past Patreon paywalls for the cheap and impatient
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What it's come down to is that paying for art and media has come to be seen as purely voluntary, like tipping waitstaff And while it's not impossible to make money this way - waitstaff do survive on their tips - most waitstaff know that it suuuucks
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(And what's worse is the percentage of people on the Internet who just never ever "tip" and are SELF-RIGHTEOUS about never tipping is much higher)
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