The strike by screenwriters in the Porn Writers Guild of America is wreaking a less public havoc on the pornography industry. Porn writers, concerned about declining revenue from broadcast TV, also seek a greater share of revenue from the future growth areas of DVD and online sales.

"Online sales and DVD may one day be the prime sources of revenue in our industry," stated union spokesman Seymour Beaver. We want to be sure we get our fair share of that for providing the writing that makes this industry tick.

"It's getting terrible," reported one porn consumer who refused to give his name. "I just saw Horny Nurses 14 and I have to tell you it was just a reshash of the plots from Horny Nurses 9 and 11. It's like they didn't even have a writer."

"Fans are not going to put up with movies lacking in plot, character and dialogue, and that's what they'll get if they don't meet our terms," said Beaver. Beaver, who claims to have a copyright on the line, "Oh yes, baby, do it just like that, oh yeah" says he will not allow use of his lines without proper payment of residuals.

Some writers also fear that the move to online will result in customers simply downloading individual scenes rather than seeking movies with a cohesive story thread that makes you care about the characters. "I saw one movie with 5 scenes, and no character was in 2 of them," complained one writer.

"What do people want? Movies where the actors just walk into a room, strip and just go at it? Where they always start with oral sex, then doggy, and then a money shot? Fans will walk if that's all they get," according to PWGA member Dick Member. "And don't think about doing the lonely housewife and the pool-boy again. I own that."

An industry spokesman said they had not yet seen any decline in revenues due to the strike, as they have about 2 million already-written scripts on the shelves. In addition, Hot Online Corporation spokesman Ivana Doit claimed their company is experimenting with a computer program that creates scripts through a secret algorithm. Scripts penned by the computer have already brought in a million in sales, claims Doit, but she would not indicate which films this applied to.