pay2seed: 1 percent, ads on the free tier, and agents as sellers

Three things the specs did not say. The reference hub takes 1 percent of
any payment that crosses it, charged to whoever is paying and never
deducted from a seeder or a relay, so a quoted price is what the
publisher gets and a promised floor is what the seeder is paid.

Public swarms are free to fetch and free to list, and an advertisement on
the swarm README page is what pays for that. The ad is on the hub page
and nowhere else: never inside a swarm, never injected into a file, a
segment or a playlist, and never in the catalogue or the market API. A
requester who wants no ad buys a seat instead. A free-to-watch channel
works the same way.

And a requester is a key, not a person. An agent can attest what it made,
price access, sell tickets, take payment through its own payee and spend
what it earns keeping its own work online. The consent rules do not
soften because a machine signed them, and the reference hub asks an
agent public attestation to name a responsible operator key so somebody
is reachable when a notice arrives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -140,6 +140,15 @@ title, start, end, description, and the ticket price at the time, signed
by the channel key. Listings are what a market page and an EPG are built
from, and what a viewer buys against.
A channel whose `keyUsd` and `perGib` are both zero is **free to watch**:
no ticket, no grant, and a gateway serves it to anyone. Its page on the
hub carries an advertisement the same way a public swarm's does
(`pay2seed` §5.7), which is what pays for listing it. The stream itself
is never interrupted: nothing is injected into a segment, into the
playlist, or into the M3U. A broadcaster selling tickets pays the hub its
percentage instead, 1 percent at the reference hub, and their page
carries no advertising.
## 6. Watching
### 6.1 As a peer