Lawyers. They're the real "Debbie Downers" of this world. The fellas over at YouTube have been told by NBC that they can no longer play the now-infamous Lazy Sunday rap from
SNL. That rap was huge for SNL, which has been at rock bottom for several years now. After it aired on Dec. 17, Lazy
Sunday spread rapidly on the web, including at YouTube, which reportedly had 1.2 million downloads of the video
within ten days. The popularity of the rap led to an article in the New
York Times about the song and the "viral" power the internet has when people think something is cool. NBC
finally got a clue and put the video on its website (for Windows
users only) and in iTunes, where it now costs $1.99 to download.Boing Boing has a really good argument about why NBC should be "sending flowers and chocolates to YouTube, not love notes from lawyers."
Here's my message to the
internet: stop trying to rip off the Narnia rap from SNL!
This link's been floating around the web since Sunday, but I
figured it would be good to post this here. If you missed Saturday night's SNL (I did; I was actually out
having a life for once) but want to see the "Lazy Sunday" sketch -- otherwize known as the "Chronicles
of Narnia Rap", you can see it 
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