false premise

We've written about the request from the MPAA to the FCC to grant a waiver that would allow the MPAA to use "selectable output control" (SOC) in order to block DVRs from recording their movies.

As we noted, the movie studios basically would like to add in another movie release window, letting movies appear on television before they're released on DVD.

Of course, there's absolutely nothing stopping them from doing so today.

Three years ago, reporter Tom Foremski tossed out his idea for how Microsoft could kill Google in an underhanded way: offer $100 million to whoever clicked on a random Google ad.

The trick would be that no one (other than the person administering the prize at Microsoft) would know what the ad is.

Foremski's theory was that this would lead to massive clickfraud and anger from Google advertisers.