Bingowings said:

If now fan film makers and fan editors got together with some up and coming writing and acting talent and produced a few cracking good original mini-series and offered them for download with an honesty box donation collection the middle-man could be cut out entirely.

Yeah, but don't fans just love stealing?

Didn't the "Humble Indie Bundle" of games let fans pick a price, and most fans paid somewhere between jack and shit, and even with a minimum price of one cent, over 25% of fans pirated it anyways?