Re: Strike

In article <en01j3lj8ea51051vf7kj41nk827av9m2s@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:09:48 -0500, Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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> >In article <unrvi3l6rr3u4opop56etn10dfo2a1n0qk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Rob Jensen <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Umm, no.  The most appropriate analogy is that the writers, actors
and
> >> directors all get royalties for the same reasons that musicians and
> >> novelists and other entertainment creators do -- to give them
> >> incentives to create more work by paying them bonuses.
> >> 
> >    The autoworker analogy would only work if the automakers got a cut 
> >of the sale price of used cars. Since the Studios get multiple streams 
> >of revenue, the writers and other talent guilds want their part of the 
> >downstream money.
> 
> No, it isn't.  Regarding DVD (and digital/streaming) residuals, they'd
> be getting royalties on new copies of the product every time.
> Syndication is not used cars, it's the same model year as the current
> year, DVD sales are new product, streaming/downloading is always,
> every single time new product.

"streaming/downloading is always, every single time new product."

And THIS is what I think is a sick sick sick metaphor which should be 
purged from the planet. It's like a cancer which infects everything.