We said, “This is crap.” I mean—sorry—“This is going to torment writers”, which it did. “Our salaries are going to plummet”, which they did. “Universities are going to take advantage of this”, which they did.
It was a prophecy that nobody wanted to hear at the time. No, no, no—it's all going to work out. It's all going to be good. We have to modernize the act. We said this was not the way to do it. They said, “Ah, don't worry about it”. We worried. It turns out we worried correctly about our incomes as writers.