[arrosenberg]

Thats not true. Even if you put your content online, that doesn’t mean it will get in front of people. Disney, through its mass and various distribution levers, can control a significant percentage of what Americans watch on a screen, which isn’t healthy for democracy or capitalism.

[lotsofpulp]

There are 8B people in the world, there is no way everyone has time to watch everything. There will be a filtering mechanism for everyone.

The important thing is that it can get in front of everyone. Which the internet enables very easily.

If the content is high quality, word will spread, people will share links to it, and everyone will have the opportunity to see it. This was not the case before the internet.

The distributor is irrelevant nowadays. Today, Disney’s role is to curate.

[arrosenberg]

> The distributor is irrelevant nowadays. Today, Disney’s role is to curate.

Again, that's laughable nonsense. If I want to stream a Marvel movie, Netflix' curation is irrelevant, because you can ONLY find it on Disney. That's not curation, that's distribution.

> If the content is high quality, word will spread, people will share links to it, and everyone will have the opportunity to see it. This was not the case before the internet.

This isn't true - Rocky Horror Picture Show? That's the just the first one that comes to mind. There are so many cult classics from the 60s-80s.

> There are 8B people in the world, there is no way everyone has time to watch everything. There will be a filtering mechanism for everyone.

Right now it's whoever owns the exclusive license for a piece of content. That's my entire point - consumers aren't choosing the winners, content owners are.