Management of on-demand content

A storage machine holding instructions executable by a logic machine to:

• issue to a consumer a lifetime license for a content item;
• in response to issuing the lifetime license to the consumer, issue one or more share credits to the consumer;
• receive from the consumer a request to consume a requested content item on a temporary basis;
• and
• issue to the consumer a temporary digital authorization usable by the consumer to consume the requested content item on a temporary basis in exchange for a share credit.

A storage machine holding instructions executable by a logic machine to:

• receive from each of a plurality of different content providers a plurality of provider-specific temporary licenses;
• aggregate the plurality of provider-specific temporary licenses from the plurality of different content providers in a central distribution pool;
• receive from a consumer a request to consume a requested content item on a temporary basis;
• issue to the consumer a temporary digital authorization usable by the consumer to consume the requested content item on a temporary basis;
• and
• in response to issuing the temporary digital authorization, remove a provider-specific temporary license from the central distribution pool, the provider-specific temporary license being from a content provider of the requested content item.