[oneplane]

You're wrong. Radio and TV from your example get paid anyway and you count as a watcher in the statistics so it doesn't matter if you're there for the broadcast or not, transaction complete either way.

When you are an on-demand user where the transaction is media in exchange for something (advertisements or a paid subscription), and you weasel your way out of exchanging something you're not 'moral' or whatever measure you take.

It also doesn't matter what you think or feel with this transaction since the rules are known ahead of time, and you either agree to them or don't, and there is no third option that entitles you to free content. That includes your mental gymnastics about who is a server, who is a client and who did what. The technical details do not matter, they never did and they never will.

Is it a shit experience? Definitely. It doesn't mean that the rules you agreed to suddenly don't apply anymore.