Movies & TV

That's exactly what they're striking about. Almost all of the long-tail revenue from TV shows past their initial run has shifted away from reruns on network and cable TV (which is covered by their contract) towards streaming services (which, per their contract, they get basically nothing for). That's a total betrayal of the spirit of the agreement that content owners and the creators had - namely, that the people who worked on the shows would also share in some of the long-term profit from the show. What's funny about the community note is how it literally doesn't even contradict any of that - it's just saying "lol, suck it, we take all the profit now because of how the contracts are written".

Aaron Paul may specifically have negotiated more up-front money, at the cost of less residuals. But it's crazy that he would be getting nothing from one of the most popular shows out there, and it means that everyone else who worked on Breaking Bad who was counting on residual income is getting majorly screwed. We tend to focus on big stars who "made it", but tons of working actors, writers and others work on lots of shows, and take worse up-front pay so that they can instead be payed out from a portion of the long term profits. Those people are getting ripped off, and so they're striking to get the contracts changed.