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It's unfortunate that I feel in some industries we are now seeing a reduced range or quality of products being available due to these price pressures.
Call it the YouTube phenomenon - people advocate 'free' content and point to the fact that anyone can now make a film in their own homes and distribute it for free. The same applies to music and books. However, the vast amount of rubbish on youtube points to the fact that without more investment (time, quality control, production experience, editing and so on), the product you get is not very good and some products are just not made. High quality documentaries are replaced by 'citizen journalism' and so on.
People say "but this is just how it is, this is what new technology does". Anderson tries to make this palatable by suggesting that quality creative works will still find investment through indirect means. However, the reality is that unless we can collectively come up with a better way to support authors, musicians, film makers, we are consigning ourselves to a narrower, lower quality cultural heritage.
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