Personally, I don't think that the suggested "boycott" would make any difference whatsoever in the negotiations.

Yeah, doubtful, but it still sits wrong with me to be crossing picket lines, even metaphorically. But I am starting to get confused about what I can and can't let myself watch or buy.

it still sits wrong with me to be crossing picket lines, even metaphorically.

Yeah, me too. I'm definitely making an effort not to watch anything online, choosing instead to...obtain things in other ways.

But if you aren't watching on-line then the ad revenues go down... which just supports the network argument of "we don't make any money on line"

If there were an organized boycott of online programming with letters and demands and the like that would be different, but as it is I don't see the purpose.

Dana is me. The strike has also made me notice just how much advertising of the streaming on-line content they are doing on the TV. They really want people watching it.

I kinda see this the same way I see the attempts to boycott certain gas station chains on a single day to send a message to the companies. The volumes of items being sold is just so high that even if every single person in fandom sold their TV's and stopped buying DVD's and downloading things from iTunes it would barely register.

I could be wrong on this.

It may not make a dent, but I hope it's pissing off an executive somewhere.

All of the executives I've worked with are so isolated and out in fantasy land they wouldn't get the news if 10,000 fans stood in front of their office and lit themselves on fire.

All of the executives I've worked with are so isolated and out in fantasy land they wouldn't get the news if 10,000 fans stood in front of their office and lit themselves on fire.

Which, actually, I think is one of the strike "fun themes" scheduled for next week.

I've always thought that immolation needed to be a theme.

Each person could soak their clothing in a different mineral and burn in different colors!