Also, why is crowdfunding illegal in Finland? Seems like a bit of an odd thing to ban to me.
According to what's being explained to non-speakers of Finnish, it's a piece of legalese that's not actually aiming at the Internet but had been passed to curb people collecting money in person for made-up charitable causes - that must've been a rather common fraud back then.
It forbids people to collect money unless there's an unconditional, verifiable quid pro quo for it. Crowdfunding like Minnas Indiegogo campaigns supposedly fails to qualify because of the possibility that the set minimum amount is not reached (in which case the money gets returned, or possibly not even collected in the first place, but the legalese apparently doesn't recognise that as an exception to the general rule).
Patreon and the like may not be outright forbidden, but in order to make them legal, Minna would have to produce
something that's made available exclusively to the patrons, and then the Finnish law could
still get it in its head that the value of that whatever has to be in proper relation to the money paid - which limits the percentage the artist will have
as net gain afterwards, thus thwarting the
purpose of running with Patreon.
Edit to add: Of course you can still collect for charity, but you need to register with the authorities for that, which is apparently more red tape than a one-(wo)man outfit wants to battle for the prospective benefit.
