See, THIS is how you work online.

[theweaselking]

Monty Python, after years of having their work be ripped off and pirated and posted to YouTube, are fighting back:

By putting their entire catalogue most popular videos up in HD for free viewing. And asking people to buy their DVDs. And making just one demand: "None of your driveling, mindless comments."

Comments

[kadath.livejournal.com]

"None of your driveling, mindless comments."

The Pythons grok YouTube in fullness, apparently.

[camelai.livejournal.com]

The Pythons grok the internet in fullness, in fact.
Yays :D

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

They were the internet before the internet was the internet.

[cantkeepsilent.livejournal.com]

Twenty videos does not an entire catalogue make. Plus they seem to have no concept of what their best work was.

Tell you what. Put all four seasons of Flying Circus on Hulu, promote your T-shirts and crap AND make a profit off each viewing, and then I'll start to favor you over everyone else on the net who isn't making money off your thirty-five year old show.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Those are the most popular videos - and they say they're putting up the rest.

[cantkeepsilent.livejournal.com]

I read that too, and then out of surprise I went and searched out just how popular Meaning of Life is on YouTube and was consequently less surprised to find it to be not at all popular. And maybe I'll stop being unimpressed when they put up the rest, but the channel has been up for two weeks now and I'm wondering how long it takes them to rip their DVDs

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Whoops, no, that's the whole channel so far.

Oh well. Yes, they should put up more. I thought they had.

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

Well, they've got a couple more up now, A total of 29, and some of them have only been up for a few hours... so I think they are working on it..

oh Look! The original Parrot Sketch!

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Niice.

[vagabond27.livejournal.com]

also, its HQ, High Quality, not HD, High Definition.

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

*cheers!*