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Each week, Mashable picks a popular song, finds 10 covers of it and asks you to vote for your favorite.

In recent years Google and YouTube have gone to extremes to protect copyright holders.

Perhaps the greatest achievement thus far is their state-of-the-art Content-ID system.

The RIAA have been killing file-sharing services for more than a decade, but despite spending a fortune closing Napster, Grokster and LimeWire, music is even more widely available online than ever before, just from different sources.

YouTube is without doubt one of the greatest sites ever to grace the Internet. In its library it has countless videos, many accompanied by music, and for millions of web users its a site to visit every single day.

But for all its brilliance, YouTube isn’t perfect.

YouTube requires an Internet connection to function and even once material has buffered in a user’s browser, once that window is closed that data is lost forever.

If the user wants to view a video again or listen to a piece of music, they simply must be connected to the site.

YouTube and Google have been getting slammed in various circles for its weak "copyright school" video that it makes those accused of infringing copyrights on YouTube watch.

A happy confluence of events inspired today's Editor's Note: some funny YouTube videos, and a number of good howtos recently on making movies on Linux.

There is a lot of good Linux/FOSS video software: movie capture, movie editing, and playback. Here is a sampling.