Mastodawn

Countless Screaming Argonauts Jul 28, 2023

Everyone: Let's use this worldwide communication network to download all the movies and TV show we could ever want.
Hollywood Execs: But that would be piracy!
Everyone: So what?
Hollywood: If you pirate these movies, the people that make them won't get paid for doing so.
Everyone: So if we get the movies through you, they will get paid?
Hollywood:
Hollywood: I never said that.

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Chris Hall

This is the lesson we’re learning from the #SAGAFTRA and #WGA #Strike.

Also, Strikes work, goddammit. We need more.

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https://dice.camp/users/nickwedig/statuses/110789131676244975

Nobody Important (@[email protected])

Everyone: Let's use this worldwide communication network to download all the movies and TV show we could ever want. Hollywood Execs: But that would be piracy! Everyone: So what? Hollywood: If you pirate these movies, the people that make them won't get paid for doing so. Everyone: So if we get the movies through you, they will get paid? Hollywood: Hollywood: I never said that.

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Qybat Jul 29, 2023

@Xopher It remains to be seen remains to be seen if the strike works. It depends how sociopathic the collective population of studio management is: If they hold out long enough, eventually the strikers will realise that they can't buy food and are going to be evicted from their homes, and they will have no choice but to come crawling back and beg for crumbs.

A hundred years ago the studios would have hired undercover agents to find strike leaders and beat them up. Can't get away with that now.