I decided to send Bandcamp a question. Did we both fall for an impostor? I guess the larger question is: how do artists authenticate themselves? Can I claim to be somebody else and set up a shop selling digital copies of their music? For a few days at least? Or was this more of a timing issue: they hadn’t planned for the account to be public right now, trying to sell physical copies, first. Or it’s a licensing deal: can’t sell on Bandcamp when you’re trying to sell somewhere else? And what would have happened if I hadn’t downloaded those files immediately?
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