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this post contains links to sound and video and stuff, but (as far as I know) no porn. Unfortunately. Maybe next time.

In my standard excellent style, I’ve fallen into the YouTube k-hole hard in the past week, what… 12 months behind the masses? 24 months? Five years? Who knows. No one knows.

So, for the benefit of the one other person out there who a) is logged in 24×7xOO but b) doesn’t know, YouTube is a video networking site. Post a video, it goes to their server, and gets streamed on demand. Rate it, talk about it, have fun. Make playlists. Like Google Video, but better as far as I can tell… and without pay content.

Well, it was better… when there was a ton of copyrighted content out there to watch for free, and (at the time, inexplicably) no one (i.e. the copyright holders) seemed to be doing anything about it.

There is a s*itload of clearly copyrighted content on YouTube, such as this immortal ruby from Bob and David[1]:

It did make me wonder, how the hell are people getting away with posting this stuff?

Well, I guess not everyone is… given the amount of ripped SNL content available last week (quite a bit) versus this week (one, that I could find in five minutes of searching; of course, it’s a bit so powerful that it will really make you, you know, explore the space)[3].

Which leads us to this truly puzzling specimen.

Which means YouTube is probably not going to be as great next week as it was last week.

Which really brings me back to the number five, and the fact that everyone[2] clearly discovered YouTube last week. So maybe I’m not behind the curve after all. I am using Google Calendar, people.

Anyway, re: YouTube… you can still search on wardrobe malfunction and get some hits, so the ball is still in play.

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[1] Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, formerly of HBO’s Mr. Show with Bob and David are the demiurge of modern comedy and I respect them tremendously, despite me kind of screwing them over by posting this link to content they’d, I’m sure, rather be selling on a DVD. But come’on - the Story of the Greatest Story Ever Told is so great, so tremendous, it should be in the public domain, for the good of humanity. Also, Monsters of Megaphone. Sports bra, sports bra, lifts and separates. Sports bra, baby won’t giggle around. Now she’s running all over towne. Thank you!”

[2] Namely people who have copyrights on their intellectual property and are willing to fight for it.

[3] And NBC clearly hasn’t found it yet.

[4] And yes, I know [4] isn’t anchored by anything, but if you don’t know who David Cross is, that’s ok, I won’t shame you, but it’s a situation that needs to be fixed. Perhaps a topic for another time. Or, if you don’t want to wait for that other time [5] you can read this(profane; brilliant). Also, he dated Chloe from 24.

[5] Which will probably never come.

## Update

RIAA gets on deck v. Google Video / YouTube. Takedown.