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One of the biggest draws to YouTube has been clips from Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and the "Colbert Report.". Comedy Central had until now turned a blind eye to the distribution of the clips, but Boing Boing reports that the good times are over. Comedy Central has started sending DMCA takedown requests to the website, which is complying. The Comedy Central site has their own ad-supported streaming video section, although obviously fans were posting entire shows on YouTube.

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tiger72
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damn

now i'm just stuck with bittorrent and usenet =\

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Re: damn

said by tiger72 See Profile :

now i'm just stuck with bittorrent and usenet =\
I guess you'll have to stick to saving it in better quality than seeing it in youtube's low res, low bitrate stream. The horror.
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rachelsfx

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Where is John Stewart? Colbert is 2nd place.
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This is crazy

This is just stupid on there part. Colbert has basically admitted on air he knows he gets a lot of publicity from youtube. I'm not one to usually complain about this sort of stuff since it is their legal right. However, the business logic of this move is awful.

mesmerMAN

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This is funny

considering I'd rather watch show clips on youtube than going to every individual tv station website for a specific show, (which is littered with so much crap 90% of the time) which is more trouble that its worth.

so problem solved. i just won't watch the clips at all anywhere.
Techman21

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Re: This is funny

Which is what many people will end up doing. Which is also why its a horrible move on their part. Regardless whether its "in their right". That sort of comment is a farce and is easily stated.

The issue at hand is how heavy handed these businesses want to be with the internet. They want control over everything, yet the internet's very existence is not about control, its about information.

Look if you want us to watch it on your site great, but don't load it down with so much garbage that no one wants to visit the site. Adult swim gets this. They have their stuff easily accessible and the garbage is on a very low min to almost none.

I've been to the Comedy Central website and checked out the various show clips. The site is littered with too many ads.

We *don't* want to be advertised to on the net. We just want to get to the information/media nothing more nothing less. Spam would be a non-issue if we really wanted to be advertised to.

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Re: This is funny

said by Techman21 See Profile :

The issue at hand is how heavy handed these businesses want to be with the internet. They want control over everything, yet the internet's very existence is not about control, its about information.
No. The issue at hand is content-owners requesting that their material remains withing their control. Remember, under law, if a content owner is "fully aware" that their content is within the public domain, and they do nothing to correct it, then it becomes public domain. Meaning they loose all rights to protect their copyright / trademark / property.

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Re: This is funny

In a word....NO.

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Crap

Youtube's video quality is crap anyways, why would someone watch a show off of it?!?!

dadkins
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Re: Crap

I can't watch Youtube's pixelated crap videos!

At least CC has decent quality video of their own shows.
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Re: Crap

said by dadkins See Profile :

I can't watch Youtube's pixelated crap videos!

At least CC has decent quality video of their own shows.
And that may be a prime reason for pulling down the YouTube versions. They want their own better quality product to be watched for artistic integrity.
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Re: Crap

That or they want you to see the ad's on their site. I'm going with that one and not artistic integrity.

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said by GOLFnSUN See Profile :

said by dadkins See Profile :

I can't watch Youtube's pixelated crap videos!

At least CC has decent quality video of their own shows.
And that may be a prime reason for pulling down the YouTube versions. They want their own better quality product to be watched for artistic integrity.
And of course that "static ad in the corner"
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Most people aren't motivated or smart enough to "figure out" Bittorrent or Usenet, so I'm sure getting rid of the Youtube files will cut out 95% of the pirated watching of the shows for Comedy Central...mission accomplished.

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I prefer it.

I just went to the Comedy Central site, and in plain view was a link to go to 'videos'. From there I was able to pull up HUNDREDS if not thousands of videos from every show on CC.

The quality was decent, I could go fullscreen, and instead of sitting through an ad before each video, there was a static one in the corner.

In this case, not only will I prefer their site over youtube's, but I may actually watch clips from shows I wouldn't normally sit through on TV (all the while taking in the purty ad on the screen).

Imagine that.

rachelsfx

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Re: I prefer it.

Fuuny, you just now figured out they post all those videos?

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Re: I prefer it.

What's funny is your spelling.

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What ads?


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Re: I prefer it.

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What ads?


yes yes you are getting entertaiment others had put hard work and money into for FREE and god forbid you should have to put up with ads. I wish your boss decided that he was no longer going to pay you for your work so maybe you'd have some appreciation. Nothing is ever truly FREE. If you want communism then move to China or N Korea. Companies are not going to put stuff on the web and not be able to generate some kind of revenue from it. Why would anyone do that? Would you? Of course not.

You welfare people are going to ruin the Internet with your "give me everything for free" attitude. And you are in fact welfare people. Tell me the difference? How are you different than someone that receives food stamps? You're not. Congrats. I'm sure you're proud. Maybe there's some kind of white trash award out there for you.

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Re: I prefer it.

god damn dude.. he was joking.

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Re: I prefer it.

I think the guy may be a bit nuts. Anyway guy not joking with firefox and two add-ons you'll never see a damn ad again and if you do you pick to block it.

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HAHA I'm evil too I get no ads on sites thank you firefox with mods on. Also I'm not on wel-fare cause with the time I save not having to load ads on the net I can spend it making mad money.

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Re: I prefer it.

I haven't seen ads in a LONG time... anywhere, with any browser!
Shoot me now!
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acethebunny
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i don't have mods on FF to block ads, Norton works fine.

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Comedy Central - Killing the Goose

Wow, the television execs are yet again showing they truly don't 'get it'. People WANT to watch the clips on the internet. And people WILL watch the clips on the internet. Using the DMCA to 'takedown' material is going to backfire on them in a big way. I personally download the torrents, because the quality (xvid) is much better than the streaming crap rate you get from youtube, but that's just me.

Why don't the executives see the light? The people WANT to download the TV shows. Comedy Central should provide high quality Divx format versions of their shows on their websites. They should run their own trackers. They should EMBRACE the technology, not hide they heads in their asses. It never ceases to amaze me that these fat cat moron executives think that just because they made money in the PAST with a certain business model, that they think they have the right to make money in the FUTURE. They are like the old horse and buggy makers. We don't see many of them around anymore because, bluntly, technology changed the world, and the world advanced without them.
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Re: Comedy Central - Killing the Goose

Did you even bother to look at Comedy Central's site before you posted that?

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Re: Comedy Central - Killing the Goose

Karlmarx doesnt research anything before he posts. He has his way of thinking and everything else is wrong.
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Re: Comedy Central - Killing the Goose

I wish karlmarx would board a one-way flight to North Korea...

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Colbert can't brag anymore...

In one of his shows, Colbert proclaimed his momentous achievement of having 2300 videos pop up whenever you search his name on YouTube. So much for that now. At least I nabbed all the old Produce Pete segments before YouTube yanked them. I'm sure people will flow back and keep dumping Colbert/Daily Show vids on YouTube or some other video sharing site now. Can't wait for the next YouTube to show up and grab visitors away.
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BOYCOtt THE TuBE!!

the ONLY way for google to see the error if their ways, is to NOT USE THE SERVICE!
no matter how much you are tempted to see a clip, check the link, if its youtube.. screw it! don't be lured in!
Only with your support does youtube's buyers feel confident that youtube was worth 1.65 billion dollars.. without you people, it's worth NOTHING!

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Re: BOYCOtt THE TuBE!!

Uhhh, if you want to boycott something (and they never work anyway), then you should boycott the folks who want their work removed. Why is it YouTube's fault the copyright holders don't want their work distributed on another's website.

It certainly wasn't YouTube's decision, so what bitch do you have with them?

mocycler
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Re: BOYCOtt THE TuBE!!

Folks enough with the ownership crap. We know they have the rights to the shows, but with tv shows getting cancelled every minute because nobody watches them you would think that they would be working overtime to get younger people to watch. one way of doing this is through youtube and myspace. the major companies are blowing another chance at viewers.

I for one have never used a torrent and do know about comedy centrals website.

but being able to link youtube to a blog or something else gets that clip out there. most people have probably never visited there site so less viewers
tmc8080

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google capitalized on the popularity of a broadcast/rebroadcast technology which INCLUDED shady "copyright" safe harbor rights.. that being said, now that google is going to gut major parts of the value in the service. those being:
1. looking the other way with MOST kinds of uploaded content
2. cutting down the space alloted for little/no cost

This calls for a boycott because of the eroded value of the service and anything less keeps the 1.65 BILLION DOLLAR value intact, which is similar to paying $4 for gas just because adjusted for inflation you should be paying $6 a gallon junk.

IMHO, there are TOO MANY COMPANIES being made RICH because of an APATHETIC public too wimpy to challenge the concept of pay more get less mentality. We might even have to change what The United States of America stands for..
(corporate states of america)

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Re: BOYCOtt THE TuBE!!

When you say "eroded value of service," how can you complain about something you were getting for free (downloads) anyway?

As for the value of YouTube, google is a private enterprise and unless you are a google stockholder, it's really none of your business. Even then, you're only hurting your own portfolio with a boycott.

And in spite of all this, the copyright holders have every right to pull their work from YouTube. Google has absolutely no control over this. They have no choice but to comply or get hit with copyright infringement suits.

Think about it: A lot of that 1.65B value is due to this material being available on YouTube, so why should the copyright holders not be compensated and let google get fat off them?

Sorry, but your logic is flawed. It's not YouTube's fault the copyright holders refuse to let their work be used this way. It's the holders' intellectual property. No matter how dumb the decison may seem to you and me, they have the exclusive right to call the shots and do not have to explain why.

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It's stock not $$$.

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Still there

The one's I've posted are still there. I wonder how long they will last.

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Re: Still there



Actually, I find Colberts schtick gets old quickly. It's nothing more than the clueless anchorman schtick that has been around since the beginning of TV, A la Ted in the Mary Tyler Moore show what 30 years ago now?
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Re: Still there

I saw one click of him a while back and that was enough.
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What? There are lots of videos from comedy central..

I don't get it, i still see lots of videos from colbert and john stewert on youtube. 855 videos to be exact.

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Re: What? There are lots of videos from comedy central..

said by markopoleo See Profile :

I don't get it, i still see lots of videos from colbert and john stewert on youtube. 855 videos to be exact.
They get pulled in response to a specific request from the owner... Those videos still there have yet to be requested.
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CBS is the reason Comendy Central content was pulled .

Vaicaom owns Comedy Central and it also owns CBS .

Google sells CBS premuim content so Viacom says to Google we will pull all our Premium Content from Google Video unless you fix Youtube

Simple ...

Viacom also owns the Multiplex theater chain ...and IMAX

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lol

sooner or later,those people that post the adultswim toons will get a DMCA notice too becuase : »www.adultswim.com/adultswimfix/index.jsp
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Re: lol

That shit can suck cause it's telling me I can only view it if I live in the US.

How I get around that?

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What the CRAP?

That was the ONLY reason I visited YouTube.

Oh well, too bad for them. I guess I'll stick to my PVR and just record the shows.
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What really blows is...

...The Daily Show website utilizes Windows Media for its video, just like CNN and some other properties that I'd like to watch. However, the Windows Media experience, depending on the browser (Firefox) or platform (Mac) really blows. I don't care about the "lower" quality of the Flash video on YouTube -- at least the friggin' Flash Player is relatively the same sort of video viewing experience across platforms and web browsers. It's got Windows Media AND Quicktime beat in that regard.

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Awwr..

Is the baby (CC) gonna cry, are the low quality videos cutting into your profits?
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Re: Awwr..

No biggie but if I cared enough about either show I'd just Tivo it.

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What if the southpark guys had this attitude in the mid 1990s? They wouldn't be rich.

A perfect example of this is Saturday Night Live. I'm 34 and my girlfriend is 24. Last month we're channel surfing and I stop on SNL for a minute. She's asks me what SNL is which absolutely floors me. I tell her it was hysterical back in the day and start listing off all of the famous skits they did. She has no idea what I'm talking about so we go look for some of my favorites skits on the internet like synchronized swimming, Waynes World, Chip N Dales Dancers and Mr Robersons neighborhood. I couldn't find any of them. All we could find was more cowbell. So she still thinks SNL is some stupid late night talk show and we don't stop on it anymore when channel surfing.

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Howard Stern On Demand



They were talking about this kind of stuff on the Howard Stern Show the other day about some of there on demand shows being on you tube. And Artie Langs comedy clips being on there.

Thats my 2 cents.

Kenny Dillon

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Just let me watch episodes for $1 per show

include the commercials if you want, and let me store them on my laptop/watch on TV.
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