Sorry, I should've been clear:

> No one is obliged to give me money -- unless they consume the content I created. Then, it's my call, whatever business model I pick.

Buskers are giving their content away for free. You don't have the right to attend their concert, just because you don't like the website they're selling their tickets on.

> ...whatever business model I pick.

Would it be a good thing for society to allow you to pick a business model where you blare your music from loud speakers and then pay large burley men 50 cents to collect 1 dollar from anyone within earshot, on the premise that they heard your music so thus owe you?

I've never accidentally watched Game of Thrones, or unintentionally been within earshot of it - I had to explicitly choose to include that programming.

Really? Your social life must be non-existant. I'm not exactly a party animal and I've caught clips of it dozens of times and friends houses.

That's probably a fair assessment, but a bit beside the point: if they were watching it on their television that fails the analogy as the cable company wouldn't be shaking me down for it. As a matter of fact, I have an HBO Go subscription via iTunes and I don't watch the show - I mostly got it for Silicon Valley and some movies, and I wanted to support what I think is a move in the right direction.

>the cable company wouldn't be shaking me down for it.

They would if they could.