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Hollywood writers are protesting in the street. They want a bigger piece of royalty payments studios earn when movies and TV shows find their way to the Internet and DVDs. The images from the scene are gruesome as police officers wield billy clubs to beat the protesting hordes back to work. Wait, no, those are images from Multan, Pakistan, where lawyers are fighting autocrats in the street. Still, this remains a very serious issue. No matter what you might think after viewing this SNL explanation of the news. (And yes, we suspect the writers aren't getting paid for this one, either.)

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