I'd go even further and say it is an economic problem.
We no longer need gatekeepers for digital media, that is clear. What we need is a way to support the artists creating that media. But we've set up our economic system to put money into the hands of companies under the guise of giving it to the artists. Sure, artists typically get a small fraction of that, but they should be getting the whole thing.
I remember reading an article by Courtney Love, where she explained how her band got a record contract worth $ 1,000,000 and ended up owing money to the record company which happily billed the band for things like renting a record studio or making a music video. In other words, things that one would consider a record company's job.
There are models for supporting artists directly, like bandcamp. There is something like Kickstarter for musicians where people can participate in financing an album. I vaguely remember Younger Brother using it for their third album.
So there is a glimmer of hope, at least for music. I don't think crowdsourcing would work very well for movies, at least not for 100-million-dollar blockbusters (then again, one could argue, that a bigger budget does not necessarily make for a better movie; maybe it even makes it harder, because now you have to appeal to a wider audience).
We no longer need gatekeepers for digital media, that is clear. What we need is a way to support the artists creating that media. But we've set up our economic system to put money into the hands of companies under the guise of giving it to the artists. Sure, artists typically get a small fraction of that, but they should be getting the whole thing.
Our economic models are seriously awful.