The Entertainment Industry and the New Technology Wars

Two thousand and two. The dock com crash accelerated by nine 11 was still under way. Film, t v, broadcast and cable were more concentrated than at any time in living memory. This consolidation allowed them to extract high profits from their customers and their talent. A shrewd bit of let's you and he fight ism pit the two groups against each other with a narrative that held that the true preditors on creative labor were the fans who loved it,. not the sprawling, multi national corporations that exploited it.