Friday, November 03, 2006

There has been a lot of chatter re: Youtube purging copyrighted content from its servers, namely Daily Show clips, etc. But, look how easy it is to circumvent the process. Instead of typing and tagging Daily Show, the user just substituted a few numbers for letters. It is that simple. Google bought Youtube for 1.65 billion last month, with some of the harshest critics of the deal suggesting there are copyright lawsuits waiting for a place to happen. Given how easy it is to get around this (as demonstrated above), draw your own conclusions...

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