Highly recommended reading! Don't let the catchy title fool you. This passage, in particular, stuck with me: > "But there’s no reason we have to build a highl

Highly recommended reading! Don't let the catchy title fool you. This passage, in particular, stuck with me: > "But there’s no reason we have to build a highly concentrated storytelling industry on top of the internet, which used to be the most decentralized communications technology ever imagined in human history. The answer to the question of whether Hollywood can be saved is, a resounding YES. Fundamentally streaming is a commodity service; Netflix isn’t anything special, it’s just a good infrastructure service which has morphed into a monster attempting to control our access to content. Disney is just trying to become a monopoly studio of branded must-have content, and reproduce Netflix’s power. Movie chains are too big. And so on and so forth. These are all just political choices. In other words, we should aim to restore open markets for content again. This means separating out the industry into production, distribution, and retailing." The article makes a persuasive case, I think, that market structure is indeed a political choice.