Producers get paid 100x more than writers. You think those greedy b*stards will cave and say, "Oh, okay. Let's lessen our profit by 2% so we can pay the writers and not pass the cost to the consumers"?
Hell no.
Prepare to save up for $100 single disc R1 DVDs of
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo the soonest this strike is over. <sarcasm>
That's just a twisted, worst case example on my part. I could be wrong, though...