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Monty Python Banks On the Long Tail Via YouTube

Posted by timothy on from the finally-a-perfect-use-for-the-foot-icon dept.

JTRipper writes "Monty Python seems to have done the right thing. Instead of issuing take down notices of their videos on YouTube, they are doing it better themselves with their own YouTube channel. They are putting all their clips (including snips from their movies) up in a decent resolution, with the only caveat being a link to buying the movies and TV episodes from Amazon."

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  1. So let me understand this. . . by smooth+wombat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the people who wrote, produced and own the rights to something are putting THEIR work up for other people to view and are providing a link for other people to purchase the work they wrote, produced and own the rights to.

    This is compared to telling people who didn't write, produce or own the rights to a work to stop posting said work which they didn't write, produce or own the rights to for others to view.

    Yes, I can see the similarities.~*

    * Testing out the new sarcasm tage

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    We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  2. The nightmare continues. by quag7 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh GOD, it will never end now. Entire new generations will be quoting this stuff over and over until we all gouge our eyeballs out with sporks. Monty Python, the Led Zeppelin IV of humor, will continue to be the millstone around all of our necks.

    Seriously I love Python, I guess. I think I do. I forget. I think after the 50,000th time of having to sit through Holy Grail, I could no longer tell how I once felt.

    I'm going to cry.

    Thank you Python, thank you - it's wow, I'm inspired like I am by the Top 500 Classic Rock Songs of All Time they do around Labor Day each year because like Layla or Hotel California, I just gotta hear the Parrot sketch ONE MORE TIME because it is so funny, it's like, oh, saying a Rosary or something, you don't really get the whole gestalt of the experience until the 9000th Hail Mary.

    Someday when we are all extinct aliens will be digging through our garbage and they will record one thing in their logs: "We left after exploring only .0000000000000000005% of Internet content because we couldn't take the 'Knights Who Say Ni!' references *ANYMORE*."

    Oh god, kill me now. I suppose I should look on the bright side (err, yeah). I've got at best another 40 years left or so on this planet.

  3. Re:Outside convent with half naked women... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What is the world coming to when a random quote from Monty Python, with no relation to the story (other than being Monty Python), gains a +5 funny?
    http://xkcd.com/16/
    You should be ashamed.