I think you can already set an S3 bucket to charge the downloader for bandwidth, that's what I was talking about, the storage part is harder. The storage costs

I think you can already set an S3 bucket to charge the downloader for bandwidth, that's what I was talking about, the storage part is harder. The storage costs could be borne via some sharing agreements between the commercial interests and the pay customers where the infrastructure could be provided for smaller indexers (storage, compute) and in exchange the provider can use the data freely for their own services. Or, we could have a micropayments system that aggregates towards the end of the month, something open source and free to use, maybe a blockchain, this is actually one place that tokens on a blockchain could work as a semi-decentralized payment system between the parties in agreement in my "vision" or whatever you want to call it.