Marc Andreessen says the writers' strike is one more factor that will lead to rebuilding the entertainment industry in Silicon Valley's image.

Earlier Marc: Suicide by strike

Via Mickey Kaus, who still doesn't permlink his entries, so I've repeated most of his post below the break...
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Idle Minds Will Work for Free: First Kushell strike video, OK. Second Kushell strike video, excellent. ... The video is funnier than most TV comedies. It reportedly got 400,000 hits--more than many cable shows. It was put up on the Web by unpaid performers seemingly just for the hell of it (and maybe the exposure). Doesn't that sort of make Marc Andreesen and Rob Long's point about the tenuous position of both Hollywood and the Writers Guild? ... It's as if the Linotype operators went on strike and decided to publish their story in four color offset!...10:36 P.M. [December 16, 2007, links in original - o.g.]

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