Spotify pays pennies to all but the most popular artists
That’s what the strike is about, getting paid a fair wage from streaming. The streamers can afford it, leastways they could when there were essentially two large streamers. The biggest driver behind this whole thing is Disney, which has always been a cuntish entity, and the fact that with their acquisitions from Murdoch, another cuntish entity, have decided they can push everyone around and digitally recreate their voices and likenesses in perpetuity and pay them fuck all for the privilege.
Film production is continuing in the UK as it is cleared through Equity the UK actors union. Could be that the top tier of US actors will still be able to work.
That’s the thing though even when it was Netflix and Hulu, there wasn’t big money in streaming if you break it down to the actor and writer level. Now that it’s fragmented, piracy is picking back up. Broadcast TV vastly overpaid for content compared to streaming.
