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Published 11/8/2007 by Paul Farhi at washingtonpost.com - Television

Here's a lovely irony of the Hollywood writers' strike: In the name of winning a bigger share of revenue from the sale of TV shows over the Internet, TV writers could wind up driving viewers to the Web in search of original online video. (link)

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