• jonne@infosec.pub
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    1 year 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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      1 year ago

      We all knew that even before the strike too. Musicians get paid pennies on a dollar, and it’s the same with writers. Actors are probably treated the same way, if you’re not one of the hall of fame elites who get insane cash for garbage roles, after they’ve been in a Marvel movie once

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      1 year ago

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

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        1 year 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.