aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Thursday, November 15, 2007

What’s good for the Goose…

Alan Wexelblat points to Kay Reindl for a writer’s perspective on the strike.

His copyfighter’s emphasis is on her indignation that the studios don’t want to share download revenue with the writers:

When you illegally download something and the network doesn’t get any money for it, they call it piracy. But when you download something or watch streaming video with commercials and the writers don’t get any money for it, the networks call it promotion. DON’T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS. Steal from the networks. You KNOW how much they hate it. But we’re not supposed to hate it if they steal from us.

Alan cautions, “I’m not particularly keen on a recommendation to steal, even from the Cartel thieves, but it definitely captures the spirit of what this debate is about.”