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In the future I can see media going the way of Kickstarter.
Season 1 is free, high quality production. Season 2 needs to hit $10-20 million on not-Kickstarter, and if it passes they send you a novelty USB containing seasons 1 & 2 (as well as give it away for "free" on Netflix or a streaming site).
But it's a lot harder to price gouge in under that model. The show Friends made literally billions of dollars, and that's a hard sell for a Kickstarter model.
I dunno, the current system seems to be working. Kickstarter-style funding campaigns do happen for media, but I suspect that form of funding is too unstable for the major content producers to rely on.
That would be much better IMO than copyright as now understood for both artists and society at large.