I am just worried that Google is trying to do more to force us to use their tools, rather than allowing us to use our favourite messaging clients., but with their service.

...and just a month after the FSF "commend Google for doing the right thing and respecting the importance of full federation", after they reversed a Jabber invite block they started in March as an "anti-spam" measure. I guess it's now an "anti-privacy" measure, right Google? Or is it an "anti-Facebook" one? Oh, Larry Page...

"I'm not addicted to cake rolls! I'm just trying to increase the glycan* sugar level in my mucus!"

*Not to be confused with the lycan sugar level, which is both different and much scarier.

...and when those fail:
3. I need to spend more time with my family.

I call that the Fool's PGP.

(This xkcd comes to mind.)

Except Yahoo is working with Facebook now, due to general patent shenanigans...so it's actually even worse because the data will all get merged...with Facebook.

Don't forget to Like their page for a chance to win a new Chevy and the right to vanish.

It's like the AAs want to piss off all three self-aware people that were still thinking of supporting their cause and business with a video purchase. I guess when you've bought your very own government lobby-lackeys, you don't need those pesky, annoying "customer" things anymore.

Rakshasa (I couldn't find any code released though)

Maybe you already have the code just from clicking to that web page. Or maybe not. Given your description of it I should probably not click the page to check for myself. :)

Don't you mean CloudFlxr, or pyUrFramely?

"Public documents? At a low cost!? Guffaw! Let them eat Kickstarter!"

People say GIMP is not even in the same league as Photoshop. This proves it.

"most of which" indeed. Content-ID is not always accurate (and happily errs in the "content" "owner"'s favor--feel free to Google, or YouTube, that problem). Nintendo can use false matches to destroy people that make original videos without Nintendo images, sounds, etc., by funneling the revenue to them.

Also, "corporate gibberish"? It's three simple sentences that are logically connected to each other.

I'll admit they look English. They're marketer doublespeak, but they do look like grammatically correct English.

At best, all this "on-going push" will "ensure" is that people are chilled at the thought of uploading something with a sound or footage that will trip Content-ID and *wham* no revenue. They also haven't said how permanently they "have chosen not to block people using our intellectual property", so people who have uploaded videos, safe in the knowledge that they've "only" been Content-ID'd and neutered by Nintendo, could be awash in copyright strikes one or two golden-parachuted CEOs later.

Of course, it's not only the fault of the fine folks who brought us 10NES and awful Wii-to-Wii U data transfers; YouTube needs to be taken to task (or at least avoided) for making the chilling Content-ID system.

Besides, Page is the same guy that got into a "shouting match" with Brin (I'll let Slashdot find the WSJ link this time, I've linked it enough) because Brin was getting in the way of sharing personal user info for money.

He's given the viciousness, and now he can go take it like the karma-challenged man he is.

Said ex-bartender is later found in his home, slumped in front of a computer with Vega Strike in fullscreen, dead of an apparent suicide. Hillary Clinton blames the game for driving him melancholy, and promises to ban all such games with robot bartenders. Rand Paul calls it "yet another scary example of government overreach", while Mike Bloomberg calls for his own ban on illegal capship turrets and milspec vessels ("You don't need a Goddard to fly to the bodega," he pleadingly says).

Already included; Yahoo is pretty much Facebook's patent and ad bitch now.

But how else will they sell off the generated slashvertisement leads to Acxiom?