• The Writers Guild of America are asking for a fair share of internet and new media revenues.
• Sumner Redstone of CBS says, "Viacom will double its revenues this year from digital."
• Les Moonves of CBS claimed, "when five million people watch CSI on the internet, "We will get paid for it regardless... We're going to get paid no matter where you get it from." (He projected a two billion dollar profit from that show alone.)
• Disney's (ABC) Annual Report reads, "The popularity of the ABC.com player adds to the Company's considerable success in monetizing its biggest hits."
• Yet the Alliance of Television and Motion Picture Producers (AMPTP) says that the internet and new media markets are too iffy, too conjectural to give writers a fair piece of. These positions are contradictory, and make no sense
• When Big Media doesn't get paid, it's called "piracy." When the writers don't get paid, it's "promotion."
• I love watching (your favorite show), but I love the idea of treating fairly those who create the show even more

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