This post on NewTeeVee makes a point that’s crucial to our mission: some of the best new online publishers are avoiding the biggest video hosting sites like YouTube. In doing so, they lose access to a potentially enormous audience, but they gain control. Democracy Player is designed to make that unfortunate trade-off obsolete; if viewers become the point of aggregation, rather than hosting sites, then publishers can shop around for their best options and viewers can watch anyway they want.