I've been thinking about the strike today. I gave an update to some folks last night so it's been on my mind. I came up with a prediction. It is as follows: If the DGA gets a good dealer when they meet with the AMPTP this month, the strike could end quickly. If, however, this doesn't happen and the writer's strike lasts until the SAG contract is up in June, I expect SAG to strike as well and the entire thing could take until 2009 to be resolved.
If the guilds were smart, they would broker deals with individual production companies (like they did with World Wide Pants) and work out distribution deals with Apple, Google, Yahoo and the like and skip the big conglomerates entirely.
I’ve added some links to the involved groups to the right. While I think that the AMPTP are money hungry tools that have no appreciation for art, I have included them as well so that you can make up your own mind. I will concede that they have valid arguments on several points. This does not change the fact that they walked away from the table and aren’t willing to even discuss these points of contention. They also have a crappy website.
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