[frenchman99]

In France, where I live, there have been calls to institute a "content tax" that would be redistributed to companies that produce content. In exchange, there would be no more laws to prevent piracy. That means that torenting/reading/listening to everything would be legal whatever the means but you'd have to give the state X$/month that are then redistributed to companies based on some factors.

That could also apply to news companies or to journalists individually.

[xtracto]

This reminded me of the ROMS and the allOfmp3 saga of years ago. That site was a decade head of it's time an "explouting" a Russian law, but it showed exactly this. When contend per se has no differentiation value, companies have to compete on the delivery method, and we get amazing experiences as Netflix or Steam or Tidal (or allofmp3 arguably).