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Originally posted by andViolins
Aren't the studios deathly afraid of what you just wrote? That either people a) will discover other forms of entertainment (such as the internet (perhaps discover is not the right word. Maybe use more?) and/or b) simply not watch as many t.v. shows or movies? The last big writers strike pushed viewing audiences towards cable and pushed the networks towards reality t.v. shows. I don't know where the audiences may end up after this strike. And if the studios (in their polling/tracking) believe that negative press or negative attitudes could affect these numbers, then that will change the strategy.
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I've been listening to a writer/producer named Rob Long on a local station (KCRW) who's explaining that the writers are making a bad move because they're probably going to lose, and the studios are making a bad move because even when they win, it'll just be the first stage of a murder/suicide death pact, because this strike will help accelerate the trend away from the current messy, expensive, inefficient studio system to the more efficient means of producing and distributing content on the interwebs. The shrinking pie won't kill professionally produced content, but it will make a number of people relatively poorer.
