• jonne@infosec.pub
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    2 years ago

    And the writer’s strike shows that the artists don’t get paid anyway if you pay for content, so they can’t even play that card either.

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      2 years ago

      They get paid, they just don’t get residuals for life from every job they were paid to do.

      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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        2 years ago

        Just read an article stating that the writers of a show were only paid a combined $3000 after the show was streamed over 16 million hours on Netflix. These companies try to crack down on piracy by claiming artists/writers/actors don’t get paid if we pirate but they’re clearly not getting paid anything outside their normal wages when we don’t pirate either.