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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grog" data-source="post: 3880614" data-attributes="member: 6183">Getting the producers' point of view on the strike is all well and good, but that article was just a rant as far as I could tell.Anyway, nothing I've heard from the producers so far has addressed the central issue of the strike - namely, that the writers want to be paid for their work, regardless of what medium is used to deliver it to viewers. The fact is that the studios don't want to pay anyone - the writers, the directors, the actors - for content shown via the internet. "The Office," for example, had full episodes shown on NBC.com, and NBC sold ads that ran during the episodes, and the network called them "promotions" and didn't pay anyone one red cent for them. How many people here would start working for free if your boss demanded it?One thing I think a lot of people don't realize is that, for a Hollywood writer, it's easily possible to be considered basically washed up by the time you're 40. The reason being that Hollywood is obsessed with the 18-34 demographic (the majority of stuff they produce is for that age group), and Hollywood CW says that you can't write for that demographic if you're much older than they are. It's often extremely difficult for a 40+ screenwriter to find work, and so residuals are literally all they have to feed their families with. They can't afford to get cheated out of them just because the delivery method for their work has changed.</blockquote>

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