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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Music label neuters ‘Keyboard Cat’
I’m a day late on this, but I attribute that to a period of mourning and disbelief in which my eyes simply couldn’t focus on the screen (that’s why there was no blog entry yesterday).
As reported by Wired and CNet (which called it the greatest Internet video ever; I do not disagree), a Keyboard Cat video featuring a brilliant Helen Hunt movie and a Hall & Oates video. (Trust us. You just have to watch it.)
Unfortunately, the YouTube version of the video, which had amassed over 379,000 views, had had the audio for the music portion stripped by request of Warner Music Group, which apparently doesn’t recognize a golden Internet opportunity when it’s scratching at their cat door.
I was too distraught to dig deeper on the story yesterday, but the silver lining is that, this being the Internet, it’s very easy to find the video intact at other places, like Funny or Die. In fact, here it is right now:
No one will ever top this Keyboard Cat video, so let us simply bask in its glow and curve Warner Music Group under our collective breath.
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