 In 2019, David Simon published a letter detailing how packaging incentivized his agents to work against his best interests on the deal for .Simon's letter eventually led to a breakdown between the WGA and the ATA when the sides were unable to negotiate a "Code Of Conduct" agreement that addressed the concerns of packaging, resulting in the mass firing of talent agents by all WGA members on April 15, 2019.On April 17, 2019, the two Writers Guild of America groups, WGA East and WGA West, sued the "big four" packaging agencies, claiming that packaging fees are an “egregious conflict of interest” that “constitute unlawful kickbacks” from the studios to the agencies.