Related thought: I've hoped that digital rights licensing would someday be improved similar to today's stock markets. The government authorizes a broker to setup a market and sell signed licenses (JSON snippets signed by the broker's key, who cares how it's implemented) for eg "1 person viewership of MOVIE_NAME", "1 room viewership of MOVIE_NAME".
Sellers place limit orders, buyers do the same and/or buy/sell at the current market price. There, you've solved the financing problem in a way that's compatible with every distribution mechanism, including existing piracy platforms. Yes there's an honor system problem, but that's exactly the level of enforcement companies have now.
My moral compass has always been to pirate a product, then pay the studios/studio partners once I have a copy. It ensures I'm happy and the original authors get profit, at the detriment of intermediaries. Sometimes you can't pay the studios directly, so things like a Crunchyroll subscription covers my anime pirating, even though I could never use their product for watching anything.
Is it terribly evil? I'm not sure. But I do know it aligns incentives for me to buy stuff and for creators to create stuff.
I'm in the same boat, every agency I've donated to has turned into a google-powered ad-shilling-machine within a week. It makes it impossible to trust well-intending organizations.
Sellers place limit orders, buyers do the same and/or buy/sell at the current market price. There, you've solved the financing problem in a way that's compatible with every distribution mechanism, including existing piracy platforms. Yes there's an honor system problem, but that's exactly the level of enforcement companies have now.