I’ve been following the writer’s guild strike (and events leading up to it) pretty closely for the past few weeks. I don’t have a TV, but I do watch a few choice shows. Last year I bought a season pass to Heroes on iTunes. This year, NBC pulled out of iTunes and began offering Heroes on their own site. I know I’d rather pay $1.99 to be able to watch it in the living room, on my projector, without commercials.

Of course, under the current system, the writers of Heroes get nothing regardless of how I watch it. And I guess that’s the point to me; I’m a consumer of their product just as much as a TV owner, and I know a lot of people who are in my boat. There are only going to be more over time, and it doesn’t take a techno-visionary to see it.

And if there’s money to be made by watching or listening to things on the internet, then the people who created those things deserve a share.