With all due respect, I think you are wrong. The corporate owners of the entertainment companies are not going to open wide the sluice gates to profit participation in the internet for the writers, actors and directors. They will make a deal with the DGA that works for them, then impose the same terms on the other guilds. If the leadership of the WGA are smart, they’ll declare that a victory and end the strike at that point. But I fear that they’re not smart, and that David Young and his cadres think they’re storming the Winter Palace instead of engaging in a negotiation for better wages and benefits.
The Weinstein Company agreed to the WGA terms today. The DGA and SAG memberships are very much in sync with the WGA on this issue. I have been a WGA member since 1981. I have been through three strikes before. This one is different.