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Dotcom Bubble 2.0: The Musical

The Richter Scales rock YouTube

By Lester Haines • Get more from this author

Posted in Music and Media, 7th December 2007 09:40 GMT

Anyone out there who harbours the suspicion that those companies currently riding the Web 2.0 crest, their share values inflated to the point where a social networking start-up has a paper value greater than the GDP of a small South American nation, might enjoy this ditty from The Richter Scales, currently attracting favourable reviews down at YouTube:

Well, we don't reckon the song will go down in the annals of rock classics, and Bill Joel's copyright lawyers may be tempted to launch an old school style Litigation 1.0 copyright assault against The Richter Scales, but it raised a smile down here at Vulture Central. ®

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