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If You Like Stealing Music, You’ll LOVE Burger King’s Cheeseburger Deals!

TorrentFreak has told its friends about Burger King’s new King Deals. So cheap, and so tasty. Oh, also, their ad makes no sense. Apparently, Burger King is like downloading music from the Internet, only legal.

Check out the original post for the original ad. In the meantime, I’ll show you my improvements to it:

Like downloading music from the Internet, only legal, and it's food, and not much like downloading music at all, but we digress,

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If The Department of Defense Starts Probing reQall, Be Scared

A recent New York Times video got my mother interested in reQall, a to-do list/reminder/calendar thingy with many interesting features, notably the fact that you can add items with your voice. Of course, because speech-to-text technology still isn’t 100% accurate, hilarity could occasionally ensue:

>From: reQall
>Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 11:53:24 +0000
>To: <Withheld so you won't spam my mom>
>Subject: Added: Look at Joe's gold in the Swiss Bank....
>
>Added to reQall:
>Look at Joe's gold in the Swiss Bank.

That’s not exactly what I said. I said ‘look at Joe’s goals in the system.’ Whatever…

The botched transcription touches on the suspicious. If you decide to hop on reQall, make sure you don’t slur your words reminding yourself to “show up at” your son’s football game. An innocent mistake by the system could cause a suicide bomber panic at Giants stadium.

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YouTube Blocks Content ID Matches Worldwide Except In Everywhere

I got a very odd notice from YouTube. Apparently their robots finally detected my fair use of a copyrighted Universal Music Group song in one of my ridiculous convention videos. However, this was not cause to automatically take down the video, nor to automatically mute the audio. Instead…

As a result, your video is blocked everywhere except in these locations:
American Samoa, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cuba, Fiji, France, Germany, Guam, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kiribati, Mexico, Nauru, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Spain, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, United Kingdom, United States, United States Virgin Islands, Vanuatu

So, wait, where is it blocked, then? Most of the countries I’m not seeing on there don’t have their own versions of YouTube. Um…China? Is it blocked in China? Oh, no, that’s all of YouTube, sorry.

I’m very confused. Oh well. I’d imagine that it’s still accessible everywhere regardless, now that I submitted the fair use dispute. This is the third time I’ve had to do that, and it’s kind of annoying. Why can’t I just submit the fair use claim when I upload the video? I know it’s got copyrighted music, I state that in the description, so let’s just cut to the chase, shall we?

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Apple’s Gone Too Far: Bans Terrorism Via iTunes

I used to love Apple. I thought they were a wonderful company that made wonderful things. Then the iPhone came along, with its endless censorship and anti-competitive practices in the App Store, and quite literal Digital Rights Manufacturing in the iPod Shuffle. But even then, I still liked Apple. But now Failblog exposes how their egregious exploits of copyright and licensing law have gone too far:

iTunes EULA: You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.

(Original post, which you shouldn’t look at because Failblog’s 3235875 comments per post is browser-crashing)

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How Does One Pronounce “Technorati”?

Technorati, I love you so, but how do I pronounce you?

I figured it was “tek-NAH-ruh-tee”, but that kinda sounds like I’m making fun of a Japanese person saying “technology.” Unless that’s what I’m supposed to say, in which case, wtf.

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