MacTV offers "Premiere" service

To be fair, the idea behind macTV Premier is not about selling videos or the rights to them. It simply offers those people who'd like to get faster macTV downloads and exclusive videos the chance to do so.

The primary issue is bandwidth. Many videos cannot be posted on macTV because they suck up far too much bandwidth. A 40Mb video is impossible, because 25Mb x 40,000 downloads = 1.6Tb - and that's just one day! That's impossible for a free videocast to offer without any sponsorship.

As always macTV will remain free, but for those who want it, there'll be a chance to get a few more videos for that small fee.

You are paying too much for your coffee.

It's all well and good that it will be faster and higher quality, but to be honest the content so far has not been something I'd be remotely bothered about getting faster or in better quality. Plus as stated they don't hold the copyright to most of the stuff anyway. There may be extra content but their tour isn't very helpful, their front page tells you what it will offer then the tour says the same thing but over multiple pages and in graphical form, with no hint of the actual content - I don't know what I'm paying for. Basically they're reliant on other people producing stuff they can then hijack and sell on.

So they are starting to charge money for content they are not copyright holders and you can find on the net for free. Brilliant. DMCA is being slow on this.