[henearkr]

We're speaking about digital work...

One aim of digitalization is to get data that is perfectly transferable and copiable.

Now if you want to artificially and needlessly make the copying cost some megajoules of energy, you will undergo the anger of people with a common sense an ecological sensitivity.

The whole concept of paying to get copies of music/art/whatever is broken, and to ”fix“ it we are bending the very laws of nature. Until recently it was still quite harmless, even the DRM you can live with, but now you need to prove you performed the combustion of tons of CO2 to become owner of a digital copy? To keep enforcing the unenforceable we are committing planet-scale suicide.

No, the real way to go, is the one of Patreon etc, where you pay to help succeed artistic endeavours.