▲ 972 ▼ The era of cheap streaming is officially over (www.cnn.com) submitted 3 years ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.ml 387 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] jonne@infosec.pub 47 points 3 years ago (2 children) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] dinckelman@lemmy.world 21 points 3 years ago* (last edited 10 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone -2 points 3 years ago (1 child) They get paid, they just don’t get residuals for life from every job they were paid to do. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 point 3 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] dinckelman@lemmy.world 21 points 3 years ago* (last edited 10 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone -2 points 3 years ago (1 child) They get paid, they just don’t get residuals for life from every job they were paid to do. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 point 3 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 point 3 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. permalink fedilink source parent