I think my proposition actually empowers the small independent content creators and takes away control and stealing abilities from the big content intermediaries, as the money will go directly to the content creators, directly to the artists, and the algorithms can be so that a per view basis, larger productions make less per view compared to smaller productions, also taking into account imprecisions in the overall statistical system. But obviously, if you make a production which only half a dozen people watch or listen to, you will get a lot less money than a content creator who manages to reach many thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of viewers or listeners that also give the content a high rating meaning they especially enjoy it and don’t skip through it or get to it through some kind of click fraud.

How do we prevent those with the means and resources to game the system from gaming the system?

Both Hollywood and the music industry outright steal from even their top talents through creative accounting practices, shell companies and the like… If NewLine Cinema can steal 100 million form Peter Jackson, they’re not going to bat even a single eyelash at effectively stealing similar or larger sums from 10s of thousands of faceless “little guys” through whatever means they can muster.

Yup it can be taxed at ISP level, or it could be part of taxes that everyone pays. Just as taxes pay for schools, libraries and often also subsidizes artists, film productions, theatre plays and music festivals already. So it would thus be expanded.

Practically the clearing house, as I use it here, is the institution you referred. It should be independent and owned by its own partners, content owners, distributors, ISPs, telcos, etc. My main point that you, the user, don’t pay directly for the content and separately for the access, but you pay for the ISP/telco one fee that covers not just the access in the technical terms, but all the content you use. Then the content money goes to clearing houses which distribute the money upon consumption statistics as you wrote.
It seems to me the simplest business model.

I don’t know for sure what the definition is for that clearing house that you are talking about. I think that the redistribution of tax collected money has to be taken care of by an institution which purpose would be to coordinate a transparent and verifiable system of ratings and statistics for the consumption rate and appreciation of all web contents.

The way I see it, there should be some new content scrobbler multimedia player plugins similar to the Last.fm scrobbler, which users can voluntarily install on their computer or mobile computers and smartphones, that scrobbler would report the exact playback seconds on each multimedia file, and databases over all files and content ID can then generate very representative statistics over ratings and popularity of all the content. I believe these kinds of statistics can be much more precise allowing for much longer tail than the ones current TV and radio rely upon to measure audience.

This redistribution institution would establish and encourage thus more transparent ratings and statistics, they would collect stats directly from all the major reliable players in the industry such as Google, Microsoft and others would provide each their independent stats and that institution could compare stats to compile the global value.

Basic thing is for this to happen, there probably needs to be law and regulation that needs to happen first. Google and others such as Netflix, Microsoft etc may try to run each their own private subscription models, they may even think very inovatively and try to create an industry wide coalition to provide interoperability on their private subscription plans, but as long as those depend on rights holders, I don’t think we can expect any meaningful result.

People also need a global (geographically) license. Content has to be shared world wide. This is mainly true for tv series. In France for example, you often have a season gap between the US and France. This is the “now Generation” and people don’t want to wait for a year to have the new episodes. That’s why streaming solutions (megavideo, …), or VPN solutions (to get a US IP address) are so successful right now. These solutions make no sense, it is high time governments move their butts and take their responsibilities instead of running after “pirates”…

Content creators and all their crews get paid salaries out of this $60 Billion in revenues. How big is the current music + movies + tv revenues today really? Profits of the intermediaries would also be removed from this proposition. Only content creators and their crews should profit, and that profit mostly means they get paid good salaries based on their talents and they get to spend more and more money on future productions based on their previous productions ratings and popularity.

And my $5 per month per person may be a low initial number put there just to make a point. I think the tax may be an average, set based on how much content needs to be created, based on algorithms that measure how many content creators make content that users enjoy to watch. So as it may start at $5/month/person, it could increase over time as more and more content will be made.

Content creators and all their crews get paid salaries out of this $60 Billion in revenues. How big is the current music + movies + tv revenues today really? Profits of the intermediaries would also be removed from this proposition. Only content creators and their crews should profit, and that profit mostly means they get paid good salaries based on their talents and they get to spend more and more money on future productions based on their previous productions ratings and popularity.

And my $5 per month per person may be a low initial number put there just to make a point. I think the tax may be an average, set based on how much content needs to be created, based on algorithms that measure how many content creators make content that users enjoy to watch. So as it may start at $5/month/person, it could increase over time as more and more content will be made.