So it looks like a web war is brewing between CBS corp, who owns TV.com, and Hulu. Here's the breakdown of events. Hulu announces that they are going to be pulling their content from TV.com and Boxee earlier this week. Boxee complied, but CBS has released a statement "CBS Interactive is well within its rights to stream Hulu video content on TV.com under its agreement with Hulu. We are evaluating next steps at this time".

The interesting legal angle here is that Hulu and TV.com negotiated a content distribution deal prior to the CBS acquisition of CNET, who is the parent company of TV.com. So can Hulu just breach that deal because they don't want to play nice nice with the competition? As reported by TechCrunch, TV.com's traffic is growing very fast and has surpassed Hulu in total monthly unique visitors (5.9 million vs. 4.5 million according to Nielsen). That would definitely explain the spiteful regression. Neither side is commenting at this point as I'm sure their men in black are suiting up for battle. [via WSJ]