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When YouTube.com was launched in 2005, it seemed like the “Hollywood system” for selling your screenplay or become a director was no longer needed. With the internet as a distribution system, and digital cameras and editing software becoming affordable, it seemed like a grassroots revolution would take over. The internet audience would find the next generation of directors, screenwriters and producers and online content would an alternative to TV and cable.
Yet years later, things are pretty much the same. YouTube is like “Americas Funniest Home Videos” and the Hollywood establishment still makes all the movies in the theatres. When you turn to your computer for online films and TV shows, it’s hard to content as watchable as TV and films.
But it is coming, and the purpose of this site is to stay on top of it, both for the viewer of online content, and the filmmakers who create it.
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