After Penske Media Corporation filed its federal lawsuit today, the Hollywood Reporter stopped using a snippet of website code that seemed to have tracks back to Nikki Finke's Deadline.com, says The Wrap. On Twitter, The Wrap snarkily offers THR the use of its web code.
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Hollywood Reporter deletes code grabbed from Finke's site
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