I would prefer physical media. When I said purchase I mean the cost of the media, a persons time and the cost of postage.
I’m pretty sure this is still prohibited.
I’m curious if it is. I feel as if I read somewhere that it is NEVER ok to pay for the fanedit itself but it is okay to pay for postage and cost of discs/cases. Nothing seems wrong to me there. Your just reimbursing a person for the supplies and effort of getting it to you. No money for the fanedit itself. Not taking a definitive side but just curious.
Back in the day my sister and I would go to Phish concerts and record the shows in the taper section on DAT. I have boxes and boxes of shows up in my attic.
As a major contributor to the “tape tree” she would edit and seed high quality recordings. People that wanted copies would send postage/handling/cost of supplies and receive copies.
Of course once the internet/web got bigger and FLAC and such created, physical copies went to the wayside and digital versions were available for download.
It doesn’t seem to much much difference between burning a BD with the data vs paying for internet access that allows someone to download it from you.