> or residential ISPs: when everyone has silently agreed to a common level of base bullshit, customers won't move (because why move from a pile of cow dung to a

> or residential ISPs: when everyone has silently agreed to a common level of base bullshit, customers won't move (because why move from a pile of cow dung to a pile of dog dung? it's all dung in the end) So, if I'm understanding, you believe you wouldn't be satisfied with the movies, but wouldn't have a choice because of a silent agreement (as with residential ISPs) leaving customers with no good options. Is lowering barriers to competition not one of the ways that such oligopolies are fought? To me this seems far more of a risk in our current environment where the vast majority of high-production-value movies come from a small handful of companies that have the budget to make them (and give us plenty of safe low-risk sequels). > Oh even now even utter novices and two-three person teams can produce hours of high quality content, youtube is enough proof of that There are reasons why working-class people are vastly under-represented in arts - the time and resources required to create "hours of high quality video content" is a hefty investment even for Youtube videos, not to mention a feature film that people will want to watch.