Since then France, which was considering similar legislation, sold its soul by enacting a law that Boing-Boing summarized as a "law that lets entertainment goons take your family off the net if one member is accused (without evidence) of violating copyright." France is nominated for a Dinde D'Or for apparently forgetting the meaning of its own state motto: "Liberté, Equalité, Fraternité".

Apple deserves to be nominated for its indefensible capriciousness in rejecting applications from the iPhone App Store, especially where apps such as Google Voice are concerned. Apple Vice President Catherine Novelli claimed it was taking a long time to evaluate Google Voice "because the Voice service might be too confusing for iPhone users". I'd suggest that if iPhone users are smart enough to deal with AT&T they can use Google Voice without having their heads explode. Apple gets nominated for being random and pathetically devious.

Next up: Rupert Murdoch for being even more devious than Apple. Murdoch is making a huge fuss about , by which I mean the content of News Corp.

Murdoch contends that Google is stealing, but here's the odd thing: Either Murdoch's organization is profoundly ignorant and has never heard of the , or more likely, Murdoch wants to have his cake and eat it. If he can get Google to index his content for a few hours until it crosses over into history and then have them purge it he can monetize the archives while ensuring that his current content is part of all Internet searches. Murdoch is nominated for transparent and shameless deviousness.

Other nominees include Forrester Research for suggesting that ; all companies ; Senators John Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe for pushing the ; Microsoft for its even more ; All Nippon Airways for trying to reduce its carbon footprint by having passengers ; and all of the ISPs so fiercely lobbying against .