They own the plantation. The digital world has no scarcities. It's a radical democratization. Every artist has access to every fan and every fan has access to every artist, and the people who direct fans to those artists. People that give advice and technical value are the people we need.
People crowding the distribution pipe and trying to ignore fans and artists have no value.
This is a perfect system. The curious thing about our contemporary obsession with spin, however, is that we seldom consider whether spin works. We simply assume that, because people are everywhere trying to manipulate us, we're being manipulated. The candid and sometimes contradictory opinions were offered in focus groups held around the country the last two weeks as the Markle Foundation began taking what may be the first comprehensive look at public attitudes about the Internet, its regulation and governance and online privacy and fraud. Most participants said they were wary of giving away personal information.