[gpm]

Not the person you're replying to, but thinking about this question, I think I am for distribution channels.

A society based on this is running in an inefficient way, people duplicating work, not because they are competing to be better, but just because. That's got to be bad.

A society segmenting what content is available you based on your demographic (even via self selection) seems bad. We should be encouraging cross-over between different groups, not erecting barriers, such as artificially grouping content into classes targeted at a niche and making you pay for an entire class at a time.

Pay per individual item, and pay for everything, both seem like models much more likely to create a healthy society.

I guess the problem with the former model is that people don't like it, and the latter model is that it creates a few gatekeepers who decide what gets funding. Charitably this sort of niche based company can be seen as a workaround to that gatekeeper problem, but I'm really not sold in this instance (of course I happen not to be the target market either, neither being much into TV nor black, edit: nor american, so I guess I don't need to be sold).

[dmix]

The internet spent two decades being super niche driven (ie every music genre had its own forums and news sites, each blog had their own site, each porn category had their own sites, etc etc). Then it sort of converged into central platforms like YouTube, Netflix, Reddit, the giant porn streaming sites etc.