You're envisioning a future where you replace the middlemen you don't like with a set of ones you do like, that aren't up to the job anyway.
Marketplaces have existed for years in various forms - iTunes, Amazon, YouTube, TPB, MegaUpload etc ... their users are almost exclusively interested in Big Content stuff. Mininova highlights this - they went legit and right now 135 people are downloading their most popular video, 70 times fewer than the number of people currently downloading the 4th Mission Impossible rip which is pretty much the very definition of Big Content easy, safe fluff. Mininova was one of the most popular websites in the world before they went legitimate - this isn't people not knowing, this is people not caring.
Kickstarter-ish models for production is just surreal - it is the complete opposite of on demand and that's a critical component for the future.
The overall premise that the RIAA/MPAA are or have to die at all is pretty sketchy - the problem is they're predatory and not keeping up with technology and consumers, not that they're redundant.
I'd happily pay for Pat Metheny to produce his next album before I can get my hands on it with a mechanism in place that would revert the money if he never released it, and even without that mechanism I'd take the risk.
Yeah it works when it's novel, now imagine that it's normal ... instead of going to Netflix and streaming a movie tonight you go to kickstarter-for-movies.com and book what you're hopefully going to watch for Christmas.
I cannot imagine a worse way to be entertained, it actually returns us to the pre-internet days with the added plus of gambling on and paying in advance for everything we want.
You don't go to "kickstarter-for-movies.com" to be entertained (unless you find that kind of thing entertaining, obviously). You go there to support the kind of entertainment you want to see more of. Anyone supporting a prospective project in that way and expecting immediate returns doesn't understand the model, at best.
Your argument seems to be that since crowdfunded alternatives can't immediately supplant the incumbents, there's no point to even bothering with them. There's absolutely no reason whatsoever that they can't coexist, with the new model picking up slack that comes available as the old model withers. In point of fact, that's exactly what I expect to happen, at least to some degree.
(EDIT: TL,DR: streaming and crowdfunding are utterly orthogonal; I'm having a very hard time understanding how and why you're conflating them.)
I think kick starter will work, but in the sense that it will be more like "high art" and popular with a commited minority.
The fact is that people are generally inclined towards and option with a small payoff if it will be immediate rather than a large payoff in the long term.
This explains in the first place why passive forms of entertainment like TV/Movies are more popular than active ones like pottery.
I think we already have this so called new model. I buy movies I like from Amazon. Movie studios look at their sales numbers and make more movies like the ones I want to see more of. Then people complain the studios only produce more of the same.
The kickstarter model and 'ransoming' has been offered as an alternative in a world where the MPAA is dead.
That's one short hop from kickstarter vs netflix - are the movie studios that literally are the MPAA supposed to still be making most of the movies that most people want to see after we/they/technology killed the MPAA, aka their collaborative effort to protect themselves?
Marketplaces have existed for years in various forms - iTunes, Amazon, YouTube, TPB, MegaUpload etc ... their users are almost exclusively interested in Big Content stuff. Mininova highlights this - they went legit and right now 135 people are downloading their most popular video, 70 times fewer than the number of people currently downloading the 4th Mission Impossible rip which is pretty much the very definition of Big Content easy, safe fluff. Mininova was one of the most popular websites in the world before they went legitimate - this isn't people not knowing, this is people not caring.
Kickstarter-ish models for production is just surreal - it is the complete opposite of on demand and that's a critical component for the future.
The overall premise that the RIAA/MPAA are or have to die at all is pretty sketchy - the problem is they're predatory and not keeping up with technology and consumers, not that they're redundant.