It wouldn't be impractical if the studio planned ahead for it.
There could be a the address of a smart contact at the end of the credits. Every time more than, say $1000, piles up in that address, whatever is there gets dispensed to the contributors at the end of that month.
Plex could aggregate those addresses and tell you how to allocate your payment based on how you allocated your attention. Yes I know that's what Netflix does, but I control my Plex server. Nobody is then going to find additional ways to monetize that data.
I know it's unconventional, but I really don't think it's crazy to want to reward the creators of content that you consume while simultaneously not wanting to contribute towards the development of ecosystems that prevent people from being in control of their tech.
It wouldn't be impractical if the studio planned ahead for it.
Studios already plan for this.
For a short time in the 80's, one of my mother's job responsibilities was making sure every single person involved in the production of a movie in the 1940's got their revenue check each quarter, whether it was for $50.00, or 12¢. Hundreds of people. Hundreds of checks.
Ok, so I've torrented a movie and I want to send the equivalent of your mom a check so that next quarter it's $0.13 instead of $0.12, where do I look in the credits to get her address?
Perhaps in the 80's it would've been impractical to pay her to multiplex hundreds of $1 input checks into the appropriate set of $50 or $0.12 output checks, but that's now a job that's early done by a computer.
There could be a the address of a smart contact at the end of the credits. Every time more than, say $1000, piles up in that address, whatever is there gets dispensed to the contributors at the end of that month.
Plex could aggregate those addresses and tell you how to allocate your payment based on how you allocated your attention. Yes I know that's what Netflix does, but I control my Plex server. Nobody is then going to find additional ways to monetize that data.
I know it's unconventional, but I really don't think it's crazy to want to reward the creators of content that you consume while simultaneously not wanting to contribute towards the development of ecosystems that prevent people from being in control of their tech.