If you are somebody who follows the development of Web 2.0 pretty ardently, you must know about crowdfunding and more specifically, Kickstarter. (If not, I 
would suggest you go to the Kickstarter website and look around. It can be a mesmerizing experience.) What people who have followed the wave of crowdfunding opportunities know is that Kickstarter facilitates a direct contact between potential customers and producers. The reason this matters is because, at present, consumers and creators interface through many other mechanisms in which people like editors, publishers, publicity managers, and economic powerhouses that finance the process of creation become very important. But new regulations imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission may undermine the power of crowdfunding by misunderstanding how it truly works.
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