Off The Old Block

I originally saw this story over at Boing Boing, prompting me to go check out the google video link (available below) and watch the video. Ars picked this up here - although with a slightly different view on the issue. I’m sure this was on Digg and SlashDot also. It is a pretty interesting story, especially when you consider the various legal implications involved. Strictly speaking, NBC is 100% within their rights to call for the video to be removed, and further, probably entitled to some compensatory damages. But if we look at the evolution of things, it would appear that this is the exact opposite action to take. Judging from the fact that “Red Vines + Mr. PIBB = Crazy Delicious” is it’s own meme now, spawning such parodies as “Josh Schachter + Yahoo = Crazy Del.ico.us”, I’d say that NBC had a huge opportunity here and are handling it without much elegance.

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