Also, there's no precedent of successful crowdfunding of an AAA game or a Hollywood-quality movie yet.
Citizen Kane?
It's not exactly a new thing, platforms like Kickstarter were around for many years already.
It would be new if someone talented had the first ever 100% independent hit film/track/album. It'll happen, I've been saying this for years. Someone who's smart enough to know how good they are, and knowledgeable enough to know they can do everything them self. You don't need an industry when all the modern equipment is household grade.
oh, there are many successful crowdfunded games
one of my favorite games, the Banner Saga (it has 3 parts now) was crowdfunded
Wastelands 2 was crowdfunded ,maybe not an AAA title, but definitely a fantastic sequel to the classics
I'm a fan of old school RPG and strategy games, there is this new project called Atom
and its a Fallout 2-like RPG , crowdfunded too
as for the Bittorrent's cryptocurrency and people who never pay for stuff, well there must be some good incentitive for them to buy content
and I don't see what model is going to be successful there, but in any case the sales should cover the coin development costs
I'm more interested, actually, in how Bittorent will sort the legal issues- royalties, piracy etc.
or they would have to spend their premined coins to pay fines to Microsoft and Bangbros