Unless you are in the business of making and selling media, I don’t see how you could claim that. The cost structures of utilities as well as demand curves seem like they would so different that the comparison is nonsensical.

Instead of telling other people how to run their business, perhaps people should be putting their money where their mouth is and create the media and try selling it by the minute, and see how successful they are.

I am sure you are suggesting this in good faith, but I think that pay per minute would actually make things even worse.

Gas and electric charge for “delivery” as a flat fee, then actual usage on top of that.

If streaming services did similar, you likely wouldn’t be that much better off

Plus, but not unsubscribing, you’re reinforcing their current business model.