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Ego sum Colobox, Colobox,
Super corobes screptus, super susecos metetus,
In smetana mesus, in maslo pectus, super oconcem studitus,
A Dedo abscessi, a Baba abcessi,
Abs te, Saix, etiam abscedam!".

Гениально, вообще говоря.

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squeezin' the 'Tube

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/116260.html

From the beginning, TV companies - including Comedy Central - looked the other way when their stuff showed up on YouTube. Many saw it as promotion for their shows. "Getting it off the Internet is no different than getting it off TV," Stewart told an interveiwer recently.

What changed?

YouTube's acquisition last month by Internet giant Google for $1.6 [b]illion, it seems.

With TV networks losing more audience and advertisers each day to the Internet, they are less willing to let it pass now that Google is behind the site.

Гугл может махать флагом с надписью "Don't be evil" сколько душа пожелает, но это не сделает их действия (а также действия Viacom и других медийных гигантов) в отношении YouTube и копирайта ни на йоту менее идиотскими с экономической точки зрения. Косма Шализи правильно написал несколько лет назад: "Human beings may not be good enough for socialism, but we're not smart enough for capitalism, either." Indeed.