The difference, as I see it, is just that these people in the video really fight for their right. The cook will let his fists talk, if they don't pay. That dvd guy will never buy this dvd and so on. In the IT world there is the problem that there are actually really many people that let themself beeing enslaved and accept those situations. If 60% of the dvd shops would react positively to bargaining, every client would try it. That is "just" the situation w face in our business.

If you didn't see it, I can connect you to some companies. Work for them for some months and you see that 90% of the coders there (contractors or employers) effectively put themself in slavery.

Although not all software developers are like this, we all have to suffer from the consequences of these acts of low selfevaluation.