I was reading an article in Thursday's USA Today about the Writer's Guild strike and what struck me the most was the amount of jobs that are being lost due to the strike. It seems based on what I know that most of what the strike revolves around is online and streaming television distribution and the writers getting a cut of that. Since online distribution is becoming more and more prevalent these days it would seem it's only right they do. Yet the networks seem to move on against it. So for now what we're faced with is a lack of new programming and a plethora of reality shows. The article goes on to say that this may change peoples TV viewing habits indefinitely, I know myself that its giving me more time to do other things I like since there's not much on TV. But getting back to the loss of jobs, isn't it ironic that networks attack bit torrent sites claiming that the loss of revenue not only effects big corporations but it also effects the little guys, the prop people, the set designers, the gophers etc. These are the people we are told we are hurting by freely downloading online, yet as it seems they don't get a cut of it anyway. It's my hope not for the big networks but for the little people that this comes to an end with a solution that works for all (even the end users like us). The question is will we be watching when it does.
