Monday, February 5, 2007

YouTube, once shining conduit for copyrighted media, has caved under the iron fist of Google, its lush corridors sanitized to the point where movie collages woven together by the Fray–please give me a moment to conjure a little pre-vomit–have become the most deviant commodity. But the Internet is unforgiving, and the online highway can only take so much Papa Roach spliced with The Matrix before correcting itself.

Say you want the latest episode of The Office. Oh, you plan on purchasing the DVD’s with real money when they’re released, but for now you want a little taste. You could consume the lame 30-second promo clips on YouTube, in which case you probably also enjoy ordering at McDonald’s, licking the burger wrapper, and then giving up, or you could settle for nothing less than the real thing.

For you media connoisseurs who answered with a resounding “yes,” even though I’ve yet to pose a question, you should know there are alternatives. There shall be no media drought. Drink, and be ye furnished.