With Hollywood far behind the curve in the increasingly important digital age, they are encountering more potential obstacles as writers and actors are demanding bigger pay for online downloads.
Alan Rosenberg, president of the Screen Actors Guild said: "We've learned from history that when these new technologies emerge that we can be left behind, we have to make sure we don't wait 20 years to get properly compensated."
With CBS (CBS) recently announcing that it would stream prime-time episodes on their Website the day after they are aired, it caused the Directors Guild of America to criticize CBS with the DGA President Michael Apted saying that, "Our members must be properly paid for the use and reuse of their work, and our agreements and future 
negotiations will assure it."
There are hints that it's possible that the issue will become so contentious that there may be a possible strike over it when contract negotiations begin again during the next two years with the different unions.
This will be an interesting battle as the studios consider downloads as being more of a promotional tool.
The one thing I agree with concerning the studios, is that the entry into the online world is so new that it really will take some time to figure out what the digital world will become for the entertainment industry. To make agreements at this stage don't make any sense.
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