[Air-L] writers striking for internet payment?

[elw at stderr.org]

> and consumers. Whatever you may yourself feel, what I've seen on YouTube 
> has never convinced me that professionally produced material has 
> anything to worry about from amateur challengers (and I even include my 
> own film in that judgment, as I'm well aware of the aesthetic 
> limitations of non-pro work). How the corporations use the work of 
> artists and what they can and can't get away with doing in the digital 
> world is at the heart of this strike, at least for me.

This is a great time to play with Joost and VeohTV and MythTV and Netflix 
and streaming DivX to my 360, and all of the other alternatives to having 
still more reality TV crammed down my throat.  :-)

--elijah