So much for 'interesting technical stuff'... They took the Daily Show clips off YouTube so I wrote a script to pull them off the official website, making a couple of cogent points.
- I need a bigger hard drive. Okay, this was the only one I'd call cogent.
- Using DRM to stop people from archiving free content wouldn't be totally ineffective. If they'd so much as bothered to gzip the xml descriptor that contains the download key for the video, I'd probably have missed it and lost interest. Someone smarter would still have found it, but they probably have better things to do.
- The result in my case would have just been not to bother watching it. It actually shows on TV here, but I've got a 50% attrition rate per ad-break - I'm easily distracted.
- Result for them: I don't watch any ads, I might buy some of the books of authors interviewed, or action figures of the actors or politicians. I doubt Comedy Central get any income that way. I cost them a bunch of bandwidth.
- Same on TV, but replace 'bandwidth' with 'broadcasting costs'.
- Same on YouTube, but replace 'broadcasting costs' with 'nothing'.
- Great programmers are meant to be lazy. I just spent Sunday watching TV shows using only my spacebar and my big toe. I hope it's a linear relationship.
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