That strikes me as extremely naive.

Umm, yeah.

I should have known a content creator would see it my way.

Speaking of which, your link mentions as a possible solution, charging for bandwidth. Even if that were to succeed, can someone explain to me exactly how that would put any money in the creator's pocket? All the industry seems to care about is protecting the middleman [label, publisher, etc.]. Where is the content supposed to come from? Midnight elves??