It actually is within Google's best interest to provide these detection tools. Only however in that if they weren't provided, Viacom et al would produce their own detection tools which inevitably would resemble some form of automated digital/analog screen/audio scraping/capture of Youtube videos, which would needlessly waste far more Google (and intermediaries) bandwidth than would be necessary with Google-provided tools.

Exactly how is my observation redundant? There are indeed people who teach their kids that tattling is wrong. Clearly whoever modded me is of that very belief.

"Tattling" is a good thing. If your kids "tattle" all they're doing is telling you what they know. What happens is based on your judgement call. Any problems that arise from "tattling" are due to you mishandling the situation. It's nobody elses' fault.

I know, right? I've never felt the need to appropriate them in the national sense (though they're mostly Canadian anyway). Typical Americans!

In school they call a whistleblower a tattletail. Many teachers even frown upon kids tattling on others. It's sad, it's engrained from a very young age that things that weren't seen should remain unseen.

Good laugh! The 140 character limitation isn't artificial however, I can't remember from where I read it, but there was an article somewhere talking specifically about this limitation and it said 140 characters was the most engineers could get for SMS messages because of technological limitations. 7-bit bytes was somewhere in the reasoning, something along the lines of:

Had they used 8-bit bytes, SMS would actually have a smaller limit, so they squeezed all the essential/printable characters that they could into the protocol using 7-bits.

Beyond that I can't remember though, something to do with cache/bus/bandwidth size maybe.

My only other dreams are to be invisible in a chocolate factory and to date a celebrity.

Heh. I posted that before I had signed out of google.ca, it appears to work. The sign-in process for iGoogle (at least with google.ca) redirects to https and back to http once you're logged in though. Meh.