So the question we have to ask ourselves are what startups--and subsequently--what innovations are being stifled, if not avoided altogether due to copyright law

So the question we have to ask ourselves are what startups--and subsequently--what innovations are being stifled, if not avoided altogether due to copyright laws getting in the way? Well that is exactly what I don't get. I mean, there seems to be an assumption that market dominance in cultural distribution is obviously bad, no explanation required. But it is not clear to me what the precise danger is here, because it is not clear to me what the necessity is for content creators to stick with Googlezon if Googlezon as a content publisher becomes deleterious to their well-being. He mentions that there are only 6 (major) movie studios. Let's pretend that they have a merge-a-thon and get down to one major movie studio. Would it matter to anyone? Probably not, because the 6 current large studios more or less all churn out the same mainstream fair. Would a small independent studio be worse off if there was one instead of six major studios? Probably not, because the small independent ("startup" in your parlance) exists to cater to a certain niche that welcomes its products almost by definition because they are not a major studio cookie-cutter production. Don't get me wrong - I can seriously wind myself up thinking about the consolidation of the news media, or of chip manufacturing companies, but in this particular case I still don't understand what I am really supposed to be afraid of. And he asks for pretty major action as a result of a danger that is not particularly clear.