David Pogue: A 4-minute medley on the music wars

http://www.ted.com New York Times tech columnist David Pogue performs a satirical mini-medley about iTunes and the downloading wars, borrowing a few notes from Sonny and Cher and the Village People.

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[AcidRain64]

You haters are ridiculous! He wasn't trying to be the next American Idol, he was singing a fun and funny little tune, F off! I thought it was great and enjoyed it quite a bit :-D

TED rox0rs.

[bananapeel99]

not the best singer, but i love him!!!

[crudhousefull]

Well...Steve's dead now...

[wlmeng11]

2:12 The better half of the song: RIAA!

[DeadWhiteButterflies]

As someones who hates the majority of the music industry, and the long line of ridiciulous laws it has to follow, this was hilarious. XD

[Dtapia63]

I think that the end really rocks!!!!!!

[robertjsawyer]

David Pogue, who is a brilliant and insightful keynote speaker as well as a columnist, performed this same medley yesterday at the Canadian Book Publishing Summit in Toronto -- and had the audience in stitches.

[jincongz]

Hilarious.

[pookiehohn]

One of my least favorite ted talks

[ratholin]

this just comes across as cocksucking for apple.