Today I wanted to listen to Glenn Gould’s “So You Want to Write a Fugue.” I fired up Google and the first result was a link to YouTube. Sweet. I click over and there is the dreaded message: “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.” Dang.

But fear not. The second Google result goes directly to a page on the CBC website, where a video of a performance has been embedded. A video linked from YouTube. The same video that doesn’t exist because the CBC demanded it be taken down.