Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod

http://www.ted.com Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate

If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to http://support.ted.com

• Category

  Science & Technology

[Wimpymind]

How come alqaeda hasnt bought 1000 ipods, filled them with music, thus crushing the entire american economy in one fell swoop....

[Jun127]

If al-qaeda bought a few iPods and filled them with illegal music they could crash the US economy! Imagine what a terrorist organization could do if they filled a 2tb hard drive, the world economy might crash! :D

[Darkstar1484]

I have a problem saying that white people discovered the country when there were people already living here. It's a bit like saying I discovered Tokyo because I was the first person in my family, state, etc. to go there.

[wasdpwns]

Where are the whites going then? Are they gunning us down?

And why do you keep capitalizing CULT? Are you implying that there are a whole bunch of other races getting together and planning to overthrow the racist white people? Haha.

America was discovered by some white European dudes, but that doesn't mean we own the country. All of the different races that are here today have helped make this country what it is now. You sound kind of racist yourself. :)

[greenplusred]

Funny, I went from this watch?v=xMj_P_6H69g TED talk to this one...These two TED talkers should talk.

[glamrkid]

Hmm?!.

[1TtidnaB]

The old, outdated and greedy showbiz-industry obviously wants to go out kicking and screaming - and thats all good, it only makes them die faster.

Fuck em! Times have changed, I'm not paying for bad actors, producers and investors to make 100 million dollars a year any more, those days are gone.

[thoomolong]

America isn't a "white only" country.

[Jun127]

Totally, and I want to apologize for bringing TED to the brink of bankruptcy.

[chowder7791]

Copying someone else's comment on a TED talk about copyright :P