Your criticism of me is very vague. Why are you calling me names? If you made specific criticisms I could respond. Otherwise, your insults seem entirely baseless
OMG! I am SOOOOO sorry! I realized after I got a reply email, that I posted to the wrong person! Some little assh*le posted racist comments on my profile, and when I found that he had already blocked me, I went right for what I thought was his vid!
I am seriously, SERIOUSLY sorry! I think I already blocked you, too, in a fit of rage!
Please forgive me! I will pay better attention to my fat fingers, in the future!
(yes, my comment was entirely baseless, as you were the unwitting recipient!)
hmm you know if you go to google video you can see longer clips i am watching one that is over 9mins...i found it looking to replace my youtube link of his 9/11 speech
This most certainly irks me. For obvious reasons, also for selfish reasons, as I enjoy wasting 20 minutes here or there watching Comedy Central clips on YouTube. I guess that is no more...
While just adding commentary may not make it fair use, adding commentary certainly makes a stronger argument for fair use, so you are wrong to say "Both videos were equal guilty." I'm also not sure what you mean by "Both." To which other video are you referring and why do you think its infringing?
I'm making another vid with more details about fair use soon....
Why is everyone blaming Google, all this about copyright material was always in discotion, and youtube by itself was alredy removing some Copyrighted material, like full metal panic, Saikano and the WWE, and some other stuff, why is google becoming and empire en everybodies mind, so no no one can have money of a born small company, i remember the time when microsoft was a small garage company, but google its never going to have the power MS has, they just sell ads.
If all Daily Show clips under five minutes were not taken down, then what the hell happened to almost all of the Even Stevphen clips? Thoes each clocked in at about three to four minutes. Now only two clips remain of my favorite Daily Show segment. What gives?
You are probably right about the 5 minute deal, but I'm sure their lawyers probably advised them to do do. As a matter of fact, the "related videos" bar, to the right of the screen, has ALL Daily Show clips- under 5 minutes.
p.s. Please don't be hateful to warren25smash. He's not anti-American- he's anti-American foreign policy. AND- he's really very intellegent. I'll apologize for his cussing, though! I think he is just really, really angry! (can't say that I blame him!)
Just a comment on the 5 minute line. Well, it seams that it does not exist. One of my TDS clips was taken down, which was only 3:47 in length. Another one, though, 1:37 length, is still up. Maybe they have gone down the ladder to shorter clips now?
Its ashame that they pulled the vids off of youtube, because by watching the clips, i really got interested in watching the shows... Now... i dunno... it seems like CC wants their money (as if they dont make enough)i'll lay odds that Stewart and Colbert dont care if their clips are on Youtube... and the clips that are under 5 mins are sure to be gone soon too... i had a clip of a hilarious daily show check in with Colbert that was removed.... and it ran only about 1:20 mins...
Anyone send emails to CC? Please do, as this is just silly what they're doing. They probably get many new viewers through here.
There websites vid viewer is CRAP - its so messy and videos play very badly. CC aren't doing themselves any favours by pulling this kind of thing - they're just gonna annoy the loyal viewers. Bastards.
We should support LiberalViewer if it comes to a fight about the take-down of the fair use videos. It's important to keep the right to do that, primarily for free speech reasons, but secondarily for free clip purposes. Everybody think of comments to make in the videos they post of copyrighted stuff. Might be lot more interesting that way anyway.
There's also the fact that Comedy Central's website has the "Motherload"; select clips for free streaming. It's got ads on it, so they get revenue. Because YouTube's format is infinitely better, more people chose this site. By removing the clips, we're all going to end up having to either buy clips off iTunes, or watch the dodgy versions at the CC website.
Back in my day (which I guess is a couple months ago) companies would let the baby have its bottle. At least on YouTube. Fucking Google.
Google and Viacom have a video distribution deal. Viacom, of course, owns Comedy Central. Viacom sells Comedy Central clips via iTunes, and so free distribution of clips means fewer people are going to buy the clips off of iTunes and, hence, less ripping off for Viacom. Notice how all of this copyright nonsense hotted up when Google took over YouTube. It used to be only uploads of entire episodes of CC shows were taken down.
I hope that Comedy Central and other Media Channels realize that all this is free advertising and further positive promotion of their shows, they should welcome posting of sample tidbits of their shows, it helps their ratings/popularity and increases their profits! duh!
glad you made this video. just read an article on msn about how viacom is making youtube take a lot of clips down and they are negotiating a deal. i think a lot of companies are doing that b/c now that google has acquired youtube, they want part of the advertising revenue.
I have noticed how I'm redirected to the Republican CBS Stations a lot now. How no Political highlights are shown. Now when I go to check video's I'm redirected to a flashing page (very unsafe for epileptics, what's it doing to you?).
White wash the truth and the ink beneath will feaster and boil to the surface with vengence.
Finally, all y'all that can and haven't (and I haven't seen anything about it) should hold your noses and head on over to Motherload to watch the latest TCR Word segment, called "Rip-Off." As long as we are talking about what Stephen Colbert ("Stephen Colbert?") thinks.
3)Then, next day,some of the most incisive segments from 11/1 (Kerry night) seemed to have been taken off Motherload. These are the parts that showed Bush making stupid (naturally) tasteless jokes that belittled the troops and trivialized the fact that there were no WMDs to be found (oopsy daisy, his bad). The clips that are completely about making fun of Kerry are still there.
2) When I finally got to watch the clips from those shows (no tv, no cable) and saw what a masterful job they were doing of, e.g., defusing the whole Kerry situation, I kind of wondered even more--someone did not want something that right on, and also funny, to be seen any sooner?--but thought I was being paranoid.
It's not exactly comedy central to blame for this. It's really Viacom, the company that owns comedy central who told YouTube to nix all the copyrighted material, seeing as the others involved with the videos (Comedy Central, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert respectively) don't really care.
I find this extremely unfair, because there is no other way to view the unedited versions of the episodes without trespassing into the dark and scary world of copyright infringment. I would be much more accepting of this sudden bad if we the viewers were given the option of buying a DVD with all of the shows. Unfortunately, this option is unavailible, and we are left with trusty ol' YouTube.
Just for your information, I did the search for "homometer" and came up COMPLETELY DRY.
This is disturbing to say the least. Either your "just safe for now" comment was correct, or this is possibly because of the enormous response to this video. I don't know.
I will be sure to watch and comment. Your videos are very interesting, as is the entire subject of the Viacom purge.
I found it very disturbing that the other night, I believe I was on during this second round. I searched a clip and they were all up, but as I clicked them they were being taken down.
Either I was previously subscribed to too many Daily Show and Colbert Report providers and they were watching my account (Which I believe is highly unlikely and slightly illegal) or it was an incredible circumstance that I stumbled across the clips as they were being removed.
The several videos of yours that I have watched (One of them I believe that was taken down) have clearly (at least in my opinion) been fair use as has been described by law.
Very very interesting development. I hope comedy central realizes that to a HUGE degree it is in comedy central interest to let YouTube demonstrate to the world what a great channel it is. Comedy Central leave this guy alone!!!
Furtermore, the sudden "We're sorry, it's okay, put them back" statement probably means Comedy Central didn't realize how much bandwidth costs, and when they became the only show in town for very popular clips, they couldn't handle it. This is just a guess, though.
Comedy Central asked YouTube to pull it's material because their sponsors probably told them they don't want to pay as much for TV ad time if people can just wait an hour and see it on the web for "free."
While it's not exactly free, you still see YouTube's ads, but those advertisers aren't paying Comedy Central. Comedy Central wants to find a middle ground so they're not losing a ton of money from TV sponsors or if they are, making up for it with web ad revenue.
I don't believe in copyright, if you produce a video and want it seen - then just accept that people will share it. And that is what this is really about - they are trying to stop us from sharing media because it takes control/profit away from them. Copyright is bullshit, don't produce if you don't want people to share.
...you can also scroll up, on this very page, and look for several comments by "zac118", who is stupid enough to openly admit to it. Here and elsewhere. All the time. :D
Honestly, I don't care whether or not my way 'works'. I do it my way because it's the right thing to do, and sometimes, it *does* work. Gandhi ring a bell? :)
Good ends are *not* justified by bad means. And no, it's not a crime to punch second. But it's still a punch, and if you can avoid it, you should.
Violence begets violence. The only way to break a vicious cycle is not to participate in it.
have you thought of 1. segmenting the clips into 4:59 and posting several segments 2. putting your comments into a seperate channel for example leave the content in stereo and announce over the left channel so the user can change the balance to the right channel and not hear the left (kind of like karaoke cdsa are encoded)
Political battles and the power of fund raisers' or advertisers' complaining placing pressure on networks right before the election time that may politicaly effect certain changes as to who will or who will no longer be receiving more funding power. But that's just my crazy thoughts that you helped caused through these thought provoking videos.. infringed or not... I comment, you decide!
i had 2 south park episodes removed due to this infringment crap and its stupid!
i hate them for doing this, this website is about having fun mainly and i dont appreciate not being able to watch south park episodes due to them gettin axed in a few days! ffs cmon!
Let's look back to the day when the home-use VCR was being developed... Same stories. Loss of content control. They can not "sell" commercial space on YouTube. See other arguements like with DVRs that aren't allowed to edit out commercials, or fast forward over them...
Hi, I really enjoyed your comments on this. I very much wanted you to explore more deeply the timing of this video purging... Is it just me or does anyone else find it mildly suspicious that the main targets of the purge are "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" clips...shows that maintain known progressive or liberal sympathies? I'm probably reading into it too much but it's something to be aware of... anyway, (continued in next comment)
I forgot to mention the ELECTION! Duh! What I meant to say was here are two shows with progressive/liberal leanings, that inspire a lot of spirit and energy in liberals and progressives, and, as an election nears, clips of these shows are suddenly being purge off of YouTube??? It smells really really bad.
maybe its cause comedy central wants us to use their awesome site to watch videos ... oh wait no ... comedy centrals site is absolute garbage ... how can a network that airs some good shows have such lameass ideas ... oh wait <thinks back to the whole mohammed deal> what jerkoffs
"We want our audiences to be able to access our programming on every platform and we're interested in having it live on all forms of distribution in ways that protect our talented artists, our loyal customers and our passionate audiences," Viacom said in a statement sent to Red Herring by spokesperson Jeremy Zweig
I noticed some longer Comedy Central clips are staying up and I got some good info from RedHerring Mag (see link in video description) includes this quote:
I need information in order to make informed decisions. Stop the wealthy, powerful minority from seizing control of information flow, and therefor influencing my thoughts and opinions.
I don't know how, maybey someone pass a law in their community allowing for the freedom to share information. Then start a youtube-like website hosted in their city free from control or oppression.
For those asking about viacom and CC i think Viacom owns CC (and other things too). I know it's kinda common knowledge but just making sure everyone knows ;)
Yeah, I know they don't have as many clips and all of the best ones are here!
I would even watch some of the clips on MotherLoad if it were better quality. The vids over at Comedy Central take forever to load, they skip and the picture isn't that good
thanks for posting this. two of the last valid voices in american media are no longer available on the only place i get to see them. atleast mike malloy is back on the air. oh yeah, don't forget to vote (unless you are voting for republicans).
No they di'nt!!! That really blows. That's an excellent example of when something is significant enough to everyone and when that should matter much more than someone's profits.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I heard it was Viacom that pulled the plug on CC clips. This really blows. Big corp stifeling anything they can control that might shed light on the truth about this Bush crime family. These repuglicans have set back world peace and civilization 30 years. They make me sick. Bunch of greedy power hungery chicken-hawks. The only thing the bastards have ever sacrificed is other peoples kids.
According to the comedy central advertisement I just saw on TV "You can now get TDS episodes on Comedy Central and no longer have to rely on some crappy blog for clips". A shot at YouTube? Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. I havent watched TDS or TCR for along time, until I started viewing clips on here. Now I watch all the time.
I think the videos under five minutes are just safe for now. Comedy Central asserted the copyrights recently because the network execs realized that other networks such as CBS and NBC are taking advantage of director accounts although it is not clear why since there is no apparent corelation between having "official" network uploaded videos and viewer loyalty that translates into a profit.
I OWN A MAC!!! therefore comedy centrals' video service is useless to me. Not that i would use it if i could. It is convenient for me to see all my videos in one place. I watch it on tv, i pay monthly for the hook-up, therefore i feel entitled to watch what i pay for in any medium whenever i want. I could have tivo'd for all they know.
Bottomline-- they are getting free PR as a result of the videos on youtube, and perhaps it's fair for them to get some ad money in exchange.
Yes, it probably has something to do with google. They are a bigger name with more money, and a bigger deal than the creators of YouTube. I can understand why Comedy Central, as layed back as they are, want them down. It isnt something personal or to be mean, its simple buisness.
I don't come here for the stuff i can watch on television , i come here for the stuff i Can't watch on television . I want to see individuals and the work of independent studios ( save for my obsession with batman ) , but i realize there is probably a good number of people that want the mainstream stuff , to me that's not what youtube is about .
See, it just doesn't make sense. Why would comedy central, the bringers of South Park, Drawn Together, Comic Remix, care about this so much? You would think that Comedy Central would advocate the spreading of its amazingness, but apparently not. Perhaps its due to the YouTube/Google merger. Maybe comedy central just doesn't like google. This really sucks for me because I am studying abroad and this was the only way I could keep up with the daily show and colbert report :-(
It's simple, people. Making a profit off of video clips that you do NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO.. is illegal. I don't give a crap how you look at it. The owners of YouTube knew all along what they were doing and the users did, too. This shouldn't come as a shock.
YouTubes success is based on massive copyright violations. It is vital for YouTube to maintain quality content to get more visitors. It
would never have been purchased for over $1 billion dollars by Google if it did not have quality video content available for its 10 million per day viewers. Only YouTube is allowed to place ads and make money, from ad traffic you create with your uploaded videos. : ) PWNED!
I would gladly watch Colbert and the Daily Show - commercials and promos included - on Comedy Central, *were I in the country.* I'm studying abroad this year. I would give Comedy Central tons of money, cookies, Nutella, anything they wanted if I could watch on Youtube. Ugh, their website sucks.
Last week was hiatus for both Stewart and Colbert with 06 election coverage coming up, Its all about the Benjamins. Like drug dealers.... first one is free baby.
lol evil google... probably. just gonna say, i live in poland and comedy central has only just got here this year... and its in polish... and i dont speak polish... and a word to YouTube and google, i only come here to watch the daily show & colbert report, and i doubt very much im the only one.
I could understand removing The Report and The Daily Show if Comedy Central were loosing profit from the clips being viewed here, but they are not! Comedy Central does not sale episodes of either show (excluding Indecision 2004)!
I would gladly give up watching the show on YouTube if the episodes were made available to purchase by the public. but they are not. What the hell are we supposed to do?
Thanks for the Vid!
Oh Lord God I hope they don't go after Exit 57 next!
Indeed, the topic of advertising as a cultural, political, and economic institution is far too nuanced to fit into a small comment box. However, if you are still interested, may I suggest Foucault's writings on power, knowledge and discourse or recent literature on intellectual proprty rights. Fascinating stuff!
Several things could have caused this: Comedy Central receives ad revenue from hits to their website, "Motherload" and they saw hits to their website decreasing; Google's purchase of Youtube could have expedited copyright infringement proceedings; Viacom could have intervened on Comedy Central's behalf; etc. Ad revenue is a very precious commodity for internet sites and television.
Has anyone noticed that TDS segments are fragmented into short sections even on the Comedy Central website? The interview with Bill Bennett for example is posted in its entirety, but split across two videos. Even on CC's own website, it seems to have a 5 minute policy. Perhaps they have some contractual agreement that hinges on 5 minutes, or some kind of corporate policy. They're just extending that same policy to youtube content.
man, this is major BS... how is someone like me gonna be able to catch true gems like the "daily show" and "colbert report" over here in South America now? Damn it, this only makes poeple hunt for tvrips of the show and guess what... asserted copyright my ass.
Sort of ironic that Stephen Colbert pimped his "green screen challenge" mentioning youtube by name. In fact if I remember correctly it was youtube that inspired the green screen challenge.
A lot of us NEED the access that a FREE Youtube has given us: It's the way I send these clips overseas and to 'conservative' [read: Bushie] assholes who need the truth that they only listen to if it's funny.
I know that Colbert and Stewart are serious men, people of conscience who value their access to the public ear.
PLEASE!, SC & JS: HELP US TO KEEP THESE CLIPS. THEIR USEFULNESS IS NOT OVER!
I think that the reason Comedy Central is asserting copyright infringement laws now is because after the purchase of youtube by google. More viewers without cable watching CC clips on youtube, the less money Comedy Central gets from cable companies.
Other speculation [on Scarborough Country, 30 Oct., by a contributor to Ariana Huffington's blog]:
that Comedy Central has gotten all the free pub it needs from YouTube, and judges that now a 'tipping point' has been reached: CC prefers that we go to ITS [technologically clunky, user unfriendly] website, and so boost THEIR web-presence.
Not everyone has cable! I certainly don't, and youtube was the only place I could watch the Daily Show.
Comedy Central wasn't losing money from video clips being on youtube.
If you people haven't figured it out yet, as soon as anything is seen to be a money maker in this country, corporations will pounce on it like a starving lion.
F*&K Corporate Media ! Everytime cool and new ways to spread information comes out, they buy it up like f*2king hotcakes !
Comedy Central, owned by Viacom, linked to CBS, linked to Westinghouse, a military contractor with ties to the GOP. They want to reduce exposure to people critical of the Republican party before the midterm elections. Plus, they want to rake in more viewers to cable.
Comedy Central most probably wants people to watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on there OWN website instead of on Youtube. And I think that Youtube and Google have nothing to do with this particual issue, just Comedy Central.
I HAVE noticed this, not just amongst Comedy Central clips. Movie clips and cartoons have been deleted within the last month from my favorites that have been there for months. It's all about the buy-out, I'm sure. Google has different priorities and more to lose if they piss off certain companies.
Well Comedy Central paid for the content to be made and had it made for the sole purpose to make money by selling advertising on their shows and to sell their shows as dvd's. They didn't spend their money so some web geek could copy their material and post it to another website that website can make money of their material. We are lucky they let anyone post any length of their material. Maybe you should spend some time making your own material instead of just posting someone else's material.
Have you watched my videos? As I mentioned in my video, I only uploaded 1 infringing video as an experiment. The rest of my videos are analysis/criticism covered by fair use exception to copyright
Have you read my previous comments? I have no prob with Comedy Central asserting copyrights. I just want clearer guidelines
I second that. And not just Comedy Central.There's an awful lot of copyright infringement on YouTube and it's not like there aren't rules for uploading.
It's got to be because of Google now owning YouTube in part, because Google already has pay videos. There'll be more I'm sure, and who bets on Comedy Central being one to be one of the next? Clean house, make agreement, sell videos - that simple.
The last thing i've watched on comedy central was that WoW south park episode. which I heard about here first. Its much easier to just set the DVR to record than to watch it here. theres better things to do on the internet/with bandwidth.
I'm guessing (like many other people) that it's because google purchased YouTube that turned all these companies interested in keeping their copyright. Afterall, if they can sue YouTube now, they'd make a lot of money.
In case you didn't know, Comedy Central is owned by Viacom. Before YouTube was purchased by Google, Viacom probably didn't care about the free promotion at YouTube. They didn't care that YouTube carried their content.
But now that Google owns YouTube, things have changed. Viacom views Google as a threat and the last thing they want to do is contribute to Google's success/bottom line by providing free content for them. All of a sudden the thought sequence went from "free promotion" to "helping a competitor".
Judging by how astute Steven Colbert is about technology (see: Wikiality, Green Screen Challenging), the last thing he probably wants is for these clips to be removed from YouTube.
Comedy Central probably loves having their stuff on YouTube. Viacom probably doesn't. Kinda shitty but that's what happens when companies care more about their competition than their viewers/customers.
I knew about parody, satire, and education regarding fair use, but not the commentary thing you mentioned in your video. Good looking out man. A good thing to know.
Protecting the artist is a scam they use to support their arguments to limit our power. I say it is time for the masses to revolt and seize all the intellectual property in the name of the people. Free Comedy Central You Tube clips for all!
Intellectual property, copyrights, trademarks and the like are just a way for the large media conglomerates to control what is communicated and who is able to communcate to the masses. They say it's for the artists, but in truth the artists starve and die poor. Only an elite few ever get rich or make a living. It is the companies and the lawyers who get rich.
You realize those things existed before America even had corporations right? They exist to promote and protect the ingenuity that nowadays allows you to pirate music.
What will we be giving up if we lose those protections?
We won't be giving up much because the protections have been usurped by the corporations, who have the money and the power and the lawyers to steal the art from the true artists. Copyrights have been extended far beyond the time they would be able to protect an artist's rights. And that's for the corps. The protections in their current form are almost useless, except for a very lucky few mega stars.
The daily show on YouTube was my one true fix of the day.
And that Motherload video player is sooo crapy, it's just a waste of my time. The whole "let's make sure they watch 3 adds for every minute of video" is ludicrus. The same insipid adds over and over again. It doesn't work on the Internet. There are products I don't buy anymore because their add made me tooo angry on the internet...grrrr ;)
Comedy Central probably hates utube bec people are watching comedy central shows for free. who knows, some people may not have cable but they do have a computer. the question tho is why did they just start this. maybe because they got lazy, i dont no
I removed all of my videos (non Comedy Central clips) about 3 weeks ago in anticipation of these sorts of legal issues.
Folks it was a fun ride, but the Google touch of death has descended and the free ride is over. Time to find the next free and easy to use video hosting service...
You Tube is changing slowly but surely... Make no mistake, copyright infrigement of any kind wont be tolerated eventually. Thank you Google. The corporatocracy will always win... Alway the same story.
Comedy Central is not the only Studio to take clips off alot from Youtube. I remember Warner Bros. went after clips that their no longer using but claimed it was still thier's. I have a playlist that has daily show clips. And on that day like you said I had to remove about 7 to 8 clips that belonged to the Daily Show from my Playlist. So I understand of what you mean LiberalViewer.
Comedy Central is owned by the media conglomerate Viacom, which also owns CBS and is a major illuminati front.
youtube and other free-media sites are becoming very damaging to the elite who are afraid of losing there twisted power of our media.
keep it up
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IslamicWay 5 years ago
THIS VID WAS POSTED BY AN IDIOT!
YOU SHOULD SPAM HIM ALL F*CKIN' DAY LONG!
~Little f*ckin' twit, that's all! Grow up assh*le!
ShortbusMooner 5 years ago
ShortbusMooner,
Your criticism of me is very vague. Why are you calling me names? If you made specific criticisms I could respond. Otherwise, your insults seem entirely baseless
thx 4 the comment :-)
LiberalViewer 5 years ago
OMG! I am SOOOOO sorry! I realized after I got a reply email, that I posted to the wrong person! Some little assh*le posted racist comments on my profile, and when I found that he had already blocked me, I went right for what I thought was his vid!
I am seriously, SERIOUSLY sorry! I think I already blocked you, too, in a fit of rage!
Please forgive me! I will pay better attention to my fat fingers, in the future!
(yes, my comment was entirely baseless, as you were the unwitting recipient!)
ShortbusMooner 5 years ago
hmm you know if you go to google video you can see longer clips i am watching one that is over 9mins...i found it looking to replace my youtube link of his 9/11 speech
SCgirl73 5 years ago
This most certainly irks me. For obvious reasons, also for selfish reasons, as I enjoy wasting 20 minutes here or there watching Comedy Central clips on YouTube. I guess that is no more...
kaegan 5 years ago
umm, just upload what you want, when they ban your account, for example, mokaiba, make another one, mokaiba2 ;)
Mokaiba2 5 years ago
Hopeful71
While just adding commentary may not make it fair use, adding commentary certainly makes a stronger argument for fair use, so you are wrong to say "Both videos were equal guilty." I'm also not sure what you mean by "Both." To which other video are you referring and why do you think its infringing?
I'm making another vid with more details about fair use soon....
Thx 4 comment
LiberalViewer 5 years ago
To LiberalViewe: fair use does not mean just taking original material and adding commentary. Both videos were equal guilty of copyright infringement.
Hopeful71 5 years ago
reply below
LiberalViewer 5 years ago
Why is everyone blaming Google, all this about copyright material was always in discotion, and youtube by itself was alredy removing some Copyrighted material, like full metal panic, Saikano and the WWE, and some other stuff, why is google becoming and empire en everybodies mind, so no no one can have money of a born small company, i remember the time when microsoft was a small garage company, but google its never going to have the power MS has, they just sell ads.
makistudio 5 years ago
If all Daily Show clips under five minutes were not taken down, then what the hell happened to almost all of the Even Stevphen clips? Thoes each clocked in at about three to four minutes. Now only two clips remain of my favorite Daily Show segment. What gives?
fkkirsch 5 years ago
You are probably right about the 5 minute deal, but I'm sure their lawyers probably advised them to do do. As a matter of fact, the "related videos" bar, to the right of the screen, has ALL Daily Show clips- under 5 minutes.
p.s. Please don't be hateful to warren25smash. He's not anti-American- he's anti-American foreign policy. AND- he's really very intellegent. I'll apologize for his cussing, though! I think he is just really, really angry! (can't say that I blame him!)
ShortbusMooner 5 years ago
Just a comment on the 5 minute line. Well, it seams that it does not exist. One of my TDS clips was taken down, which was only 3:47 in length. Another one, though, 1:37 length, is still up. Maybe they have gone down the ladder to shorter clips now?
arrowheader 5 years ago
Its ashame that they pulled the vids off of youtube, because by watching the clips, i really got interested in watching the shows... Now... i dunno... it seems like CC wants their money (as if they dont make enough)i'll lay odds that Stewart and Colbert dont care if their clips are on Youtube... and the clips that are under 5 mins are sure to be gone soon too... i had a clip of a hilarious daily show check in with Colbert that was removed.... and it ran only about 1:20 mins...
ThePhilosophizer8488 5 years ago
Anyone send emails to CC? Please do, as this is just silly what they're doing. They probably get many new viewers through here.
There websites vid viewer is CRAP - its so messy and videos play very badly. CC aren't doing themselves any favours by pulling this kind of thing - they're just gonna annoy the loyal viewers. Bastards.
xadious 5 years ago
I totally agree, comedy centrals website, sucks!
MonsterCody 5 years ago
Whatever happened to napster :( ???
mitchello413 5 years ago
I just noticed the name of the law firm that sent the copyright infringement notice, Was it really "Rumsfeld, Gonzalez and Rice?
gloryoski 5 years ago
Anyone who couldn't see this coming?
The good times simply couldn't last with big brother google on the scene.
Anyone got any bright ideas?
aliasmax23 5 years ago
We should support LiberalViewer if it comes to a fight about the take-down of the fair use videos. It's important to keep the right to do that, primarily for free speech reasons, but secondarily for free clip purposes. Everybody think of comments to make in the videos they post of copyrighted stuff. Might be lot more interesting that way anyway.
gloryoski 5 years ago
boycott the advertisers on the show- get a lot of people-let them know-might work
mab68mab 5 years ago
There's also the fact that Comedy Central's website has the "Motherload"; select clips for free streaming. It's got ads on it, so they get revenue. Because YouTube's format is infinitely better, more people chose this site. By removing the clips, we're all going to end up having to either buy clips off iTunes, or watch the dodgy versions at the CC website.
Back in my day (which I guess is a couple months ago) companies would let the baby have its bottle. At least on YouTube. Fucking Google.
Libintia 5 years ago
yes.
barb99999 5 years ago
Google and Viacom have a video distribution deal. Viacom, of course, owns Comedy Central. Viacom sells Comedy Central clips via iTunes, and so free distribution of clips means fewer people are going to buy the clips off of iTunes and, hence, less ripping off for Viacom. Notice how all of this copyright nonsense hotted up when Google took over YouTube. It used to be only uploads of entire episodes of CC shows were taken down.
Libintia 5 years ago
two obvious reasons for the timing:
1. there's an election on Tuesday, and the daily show is the biggest political force for the younger generations.
2. Google just bought youtube, and their stocks cost about as much as a new laptop. they can't afford a lawsuit.
leroyskagnetti 5 years ago
I hope that Comedy Central and other Media Channels realize that all this is free advertising and further positive promotion of their shows, they should welcome posting of sample tidbits of their shows, it helps their ratings/popularity and increases their profits! duh!
ckcorbett 5 years ago
glad you made this video. just read an article on msn about how viacom is making youtube take a lot of clips down and they are negotiating a deal. i think a lot of companies are doing that b/c now that google has acquired youtube, they want part of the advertising revenue.
angel48 5 years ago
I have noticed how I'm redirected to the Republican CBS Stations a lot now. How no Political highlights are shown. Now when I go to check video's I'm redirected to a flashing page (very unsafe for epileptics, what's it doing to you?).
White wash the truth and the ink beneath will feaster and boil to the surface with vengence.
tfbbm 5 years ago
I did a search for homometer and got: Video results for 'homometer'
Then I added the dashes, just in case that was missing, no sign of the video you mention....
daniesza 5 years ago
Finally, all y'all that can and haven't (and I haven't seen anything about it) should hold your noses and head on over to Motherload to watch the latest TCR Word segment, called "Rip-Off." As long as we are talking about what Stephen Colbert ("Stephen Colbert?") thinks.
gloryoski 5 years ago
I saw it. He sounds like a foil for a panicked YouTube.
chillspikeHQ 5 years ago
3)Then, next day,some of the most incisive segments from 11/1 (Kerry night) seemed to have been taken off Motherload. These are the parts that showed Bush making stupid (naturally) tasteless jokes that belittled the troops and trivialized the fact that there were no WMDs to be found (oopsy daisy, his bad). The clips that are completely about making fun of Kerry are still there.
gloryoski 5 years ago
2) When I finally got to watch the clips from those shows (no tv, no cable) and saw what a masterful job they were doing of, e.g., defusing the whole Kerry situation, I kind of wondered even more--someone did not want something that right on, and also funny, to be seen any sooner?--but thought I was being paranoid.
gloryoski 5 years ago
It's not exactly comedy central to blame for this. It's really Viacom, the company that owns comedy central who told YouTube to nix all the copyrighted material, seeing as the others involved with the videos (Comedy Central, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert respectively) don't really care.
rainmc 5 years ago
right on.
angel48 5 years ago
I hope people are right about bring back YouTube clips b/c... Over the past day or so,some kind of fishy things about the videos on Motherload.
1) TDS video clips from the midterm midtacular episodes seem to be being put up significantly later than usual.
gloryoski 5 years ago
I find this extremely unfair, because there is no other way to view the unedited versions of the episodes without trespassing into the dark and scary world of copyright infringment. I would be much more accepting of this sudden bad if we the viewers were given the option of buying a DVD with all of the shows. Unfortunately, this option is unavailible, and we are left with trusty ol' YouTube.
provenxcynic 5 years ago
I also find this issue very interesting, although they *seem* to have decided that as long as the full episode is not posted, that it is okay.
provenxcynic 5 years ago
Not true, see the NEW first link in the description of this video
LiberalViewer 5 years ago
I am in the process of reading this right now.
Just for your information, I did the search for "homometer" and came up COMPLETELY DRY.
This is disturbing to say the least. Either your "just safe for now" comment was correct, or this is possibly because of the enormous response to this video. I don't know.
provenxcynic 5 years ago
After I made the video, there was a second wave that looks like it got most stuff over THREE MINUTES
It also got 4 of my videos that I think are pretty clearly FAIR USE
I should be making another video on the topic soon....
LiberalViewer 5 years ago
I will be sure to watch and comment. Your videos are very interesting, as is the entire subject of the Viacom purge.
I found it very disturbing that the other night, I believe I was on during this second round. I searched a clip and they were all up, but as I clicked them they were being taken down.
provenxcynic 5 years ago
Either I was previously subscribed to too many Daily Show and Colbert Report providers and they were watching my account (Which I believe is highly unlikely and slightly illegal) or it was an incredible circumstance that I stumbled across the clips as they were being removed.
The several videos of yours that I have watched (One of them I believe that was taken down) have clearly (at least in my opinion) been fair use as has been described by law.
provenxcynic 5 years ago
tempy involved in intellectual banter... sigh.
this is insightful, thank you
youvebeenthunderstru 5 years ago
Interesting commentary, however, why do you sound so freaking gay?
Tempy589 5 years ago
It's called "gravitas". Look it up.
chillspikeHQ 5 years ago
go away tempy
Protean213 5 years ago
Very very interesting development. I hope comedy central realizes that to a HUGE degree it is in comedy central interest to let YouTube demonstrate to the world what a great channel it is. Comedy Central leave this guy alone!!!
volvol1 5 years ago
Furtermore, the sudden "We're sorry, it's okay, put them back" statement probably means Comedy Central didn't realize how much bandwidth costs, and when they became the only show in town for very popular clips, they couldn't handle it. This is just a guess, though.
Axion22 5 years ago
Comedy Central asked YouTube to pull it's material because their sponsors probably told them they don't want to pay as much for TV ad time if people can just wait an hour and see it on the web for "free."
While it's not exactly free, you still see YouTube's ads, but those advertisers aren't paying Comedy Central. Comedy Central wants to find a middle ground so they're not losing a ton of money from TV sponsors or if they are, making up for it with web ad revenue.
Axion22 5 years ago
I don't believe in copyright, if you produce a video and want it seen - then just accept that people will share it. And that is what this is really about - they are trying to stop us from sharing media because it takes control/profit away from them. Copyright is bullshit, don't produce if you don't want people to share.
COAnews 5 years ago
I want to know how many copyrighted videos of a conservative nature were banned? Is it possible conservatives are turning liberal youtubers in?
chillspikeHQ 5 years ago
chill - Possible? Hehe. It's *factually documented*. By the very people doing it. :)
Go to Michelle Malkin's "Conservative YouTubers" group.
They keep an ongoing list of clips to gang up and flag-bomb. Go see for yourself. It's pathetic.
my15minutes 5 years ago
...you can also scroll up, on this very page, and look for several comments by "zac118", who is stupid enough to openly admit to it. Here and elsewhere. All the time. :D
my15minutes 5 years ago
Then we have to do the same to their clips..that's it. Anything conservatives post that is a possible infringement of copyright has to be flagged!!!
chillspikeHQ 5 years ago
chill - With all due respect, and understanding for your reasons, I disagree. Vehemently.
I've known they're doing this for *months* now, and have never done it back to them. I've never flagged a single video for any reason.
Don't be as bad as them, ok? Be better than them.
Expose them as childish and pathetic, by exposing what they do, but NOT stooping to their level.
Lead by example.
my15minutes 5 years ago
we can try your way but, honestly, I don't think it will work...I also don't think it is a crime to punch a bully back if he punches you first..
chillspikeHQ 5 years ago
chill - Thanks.
Honestly, I don't care whether or not my way 'works'. I do it my way because it's the right thing to do, and sometimes, it *does* work. Gandhi ring a bell? :)
Good ends are *not* justified by bad means. And no, it's not a crime to punch second. But it's still a punch, and if you can avoid it, you should.
Violence begets violence. The only way to break a vicious cycle is not to participate in it.
my15minutes 5 years ago
have you thought of 1. segmenting the clips into 4:59 and posting several segments 2. putting your comments into a seperate channel for example leave the content in stereo and announce over the left channel so the user can change the balance to the right channel and not hear the left (kind of like karaoke cdsa are encoded)
ejonesss 5 years ago
Who the F. cares? Theyre still letting you take their footage illegally as long as its under 5 mins (i guess) so stop making a big deal out of it.
IamAphish 5 years ago
phish - a.) He's not doing it illegally with any other clips than that one, because he provides Fair Use commentary.
b.) How does one clip addressing an issue qualify as "making a big deal out of it"?
c.) Apparently, *you* care (enough to leave a snotty comment about it). :)
my15minutes 5 years ago
ps. Look around, phish. Apparently, a lot of people "the F." care.
Several hundred LV subscribers, several thousand other YouTube uploaders, the YouTube admins, and Viacom, which owns ComedyCentral "the F." care.
Know what almost *none* of those people care about? Your commentary on it. :D
my15minutes 5 years ago
Political battles and the power of fund raisers' or advertisers' complaining placing pressure on networks right before the election time that may politicaly effect certain changes as to who will or who will no longer be receiving more funding power. But that's just my crazy thoughts that you helped caused through these thought provoking videos.. infringed or not... I comment, you decide!
~FWz~
FreeWingz 5 years ago
Just be careful you don't get a copyright infringment letter for showing the copyright infringement letter...
turkcealtyazici 5 years ago
1. just safe for now
2. because there's probably a new bureaucratic jobsworthy type on the job behind the scenes at Central.
There's no 5 minute limit either - I slapped Turkish subs on a 3 minute thing and it got taken. :(
ps. would posting subs ANALYSING the content not be infringement? like a bit at the end saying 'I liked that clip! That clip was super!'
turkcealtyazici 5 years ago
sorry made a mistake you seem to have been right about the 5 minute thing, my vid was over 5 minutes.
turkcealtyazici 5 years ago
That's enough to make me never go to Comedy Central's site.
adventure542 5 years ago
i had 2 south park episodes removed due to this infringment crap and its stupid!
i hate them for doing this, this website is about having fun mainly and i dont appreciate not being able to watch south park episodes due to them gettin axed in a few days! ffs cmon!
kyle1550 5 years ago
maybe because of the election?
ice777777 5 years ago
its obvious because google brought youtube..
btw i heard they are bringing back the clips!!!
tamrix 5 years ago
How do you know this?
ViolentRyo 5 years ago
homometer doesn't exist....
toddrickvonmelvin 5 years ago
Because they can now sue a multi-million dollar corporation to get MOOLAH, MONEY, CASH-OH-LA!
toddrickvonmelvin 5 years ago
Let's look back to the day when the home-use VCR was being developed... Same stories. Loss of content control. They can not "sell" commercial space on YouTube. See other arguements like with DVRs that aren't allowed to edit out commercials, or fast forward over them...
It's all about the almighty buck.
mc4bbs 5 years ago
It seems they're back:
And there's a link to your video
http:*//arstechnica*com/news.ars/post/20061101-8126.html
adinu79 5 years ago
Hi, I really enjoyed your comments on this. I very much wanted you to explore more deeply the timing of this video purging... Is it just me or does anyone else find it mildly suspicious that the main targets of the purge are "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" clips...shows that maintain known progressive or liberal sympathies? I'm probably reading into it too much but it's something to be aware of... anyway, (continued in next comment)
chillspikeHQ 5 years ago
I forgot to mention the ELECTION! Duh! What I meant to say was here are two shows with progressive/liberal leanings, that inspire a lot of spirit and energy in liberals and progressives, and, as an election nears, clips of these shows are suddenly being purge off of YouTube??? It smells really really bad.
chillspikeHQ 5 years ago
maybe its cause comedy central wants us to use their awesome site to watch videos ... oh wait no ... comedy centrals site is absolute garbage ... how can a network that airs some good shows have such lameass ideas ... oh wait <thinks back to the whole mohammed deal> what jerkoffs
KhaineDarkhart 5 years ago
---2ND NEWS ALERT---
I just lost FOUR MORE videos to Comedy Central infringment claims, but I thought these videos were FAIR USE
More news as it develops...
LiberalViewer 5 years ago
I thought when you lose three videos due to copywright you get banned?
beautytruth 5 years ago
QUOTE FROM REDHERRING MAGAZINE:
"We want our audiences to be able to access our programming on every platform and we're interested in having it live on all forms of distribution in ways that protect our talented artists, our loyal customers and our passionate audiences," Viacom said in a statement sent to Red Herring by spokesperson Jeremy Zweig
LiberalViewer 5 years ago
----NEWS ALERT ----
VIACOM BACKS OFF (HOW MUCH?)
I noticed some longer Comedy Central clips are staying up and I got some good info from RedHerring Mag (see link in video description) includes this quote:
LiberalViewer 5 years ago
Some individuals didnt like sharing their wealth/power through Napster, but today you can still share music.
Lets do the same with youtube. (Not me, some internet nerd who knows what he's doing)
gedmaximum 5 years ago
I need information in order to make informed decisions. Stop the wealthy, powerful minority from seizing control of information flow, and therefor influencing my thoughts and opinions.
I don't know how, maybey someone pass a law in their community allowing for the freedom to share information. Then start a youtube-like website hosted in their city free from control or oppression.
gedmaximum 5 years ago
Oh, you are so right, gedmaximum--it is the FLOW OF INFO that is getting harder and harder to get!! (almost impossible in mainstream news)...
tigerlily46514 5 years ago
For those asking about viacom and CC i think Viacom owns CC (and other things too). I know it's kinda common knowledge but just making sure everyone knows ;)
VampiricNinja 5 years ago
Yeah, I know they don't have as many clips and all of the best ones are here!
I would even watch some of the clips on MotherLoad if it were better quality. The vids over at Comedy Central take forever to load, they skip and the picture isn't that good
JessicaFaith 5 years ago
Why now?, cos if Google have money to waste on youtube, then it has money to burn, ie pay off CC.
igsys 5 years ago
I blame Google. I knew that once they took over, YouTube was going to be cracking down on copyrighted stuff.
EretzLaAm 5 years ago
Dude, get a life. Seriously.
Lithium000 5 years ago
thanks for posting this. two of the last valid voices in american media are no longer available on the only place i get to see them. atleast mike malloy is back on the air. oh yeah, don't forget to vote (unless you are voting for republicans).
jondemiglio 5 years ago
Dude, its fair use, boo on youtube. Especially for taking down Stewart's post 9/11 speech.
cluman2000 5 years ago
No they di'nt!!! That really blows. That's an excellent example of when something is significant enough to everyone and when that should matter much more than someone's profits.
gloryoski 5 years ago
Are there any other video websites like youtube that doesn't have a monopoly in control that I should move to?
yedrellow 5 years ago
Boom there goes the stewart influence.
yedrellow 5 years ago
Maybe it has somethig to do with google now owning youtube.
lionslair50 5 years ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I heard it was Viacom that pulled the plug on CC clips. This really blows. Big corp stifeling anything they can control that might shed light on the truth about this Bush crime family. These repuglicans have set back world peace and civilization 30 years. They make me sick. Bunch of greedy power hungery chicken-hawks. The only thing the bastards have ever sacrificed is other peoples kids.
If you buy into their crap, you're a fool.
jcvideo 5 years ago
According to the comedy central advertisement I just saw on TV "You can now get TDS episodes on Comedy Central and no longer have to rely on some crappy blog for clips". A shot at YouTube? Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. I havent watched TDS or TCR for along time, until I started viewing clips on here. Now I watch all the time.
maverick2272 5 years ago
I think the videos under five minutes are just safe for now. Comedy Central asserted the copyrights recently because the network execs realized that other networks such as CBS and NBC are taking advantage of director accounts although it is not clear why since there is no apparent corelation between having "official" network uploaded videos and viewer loyalty that translates into a profit.
mannderdame 5 years ago
Write to Stewart and Colbert. Am sure they'll have something to say about this...
dengueoxum 5 years ago
I OWN A MAC!!! therefore comedy centrals' video service is useless to me. Not that i would use it if i could. It is convenient for me to see all my videos in one place. I watch it on tv, i pay monthly for the hook-up, therefore i feel entitled to watch what i pay for in any medium whenever i want. I could have tivo'd for all they know.
Bottomline-- they are getting free PR as a result of the videos on youtube, and perhaps it's fair for them to get some ad money in exchange.
fastfood15 5 years ago
Yes, it probably has something to do with google. They are a bigger name with more money, and a bigger deal than the creators of YouTube. I can understand why Comedy Central, as layed back as they are, want them down. It isnt something personal or to be mean, its simple buisness.
slstratocaster 5 years ago
I don't come here for the stuff i can watch on television , i come here for the stuff i Can't watch on television . I want to see individuals and the work of independent studios ( save for my obsession with batman ) , but i realize there is probably a good number of people that want the mainstream stuff , to me that's not what youtube is about .
JoeVector 5 years ago
Why now? because Google is involved. Google has money. Youtube was just some web 2.0 BS until bought by Google. Now its "serious".
airsickmoth 5 years ago
See, it just doesn't make sense. Why would comedy central, the bringers of South Park, Drawn Together, Comic Remix, care about this so much? You would think that Comedy Central would advocate the spreading of its amazingness, but apparently not. Perhaps its due to the YouTube/Google merger. Maybe comedy central just doesn't like google. This really sucks for me because I am studying abroad and this was the only way I could keep up with the daily show and colbert report :-(
salaamthebody 5 years ago
It's simple, people. Making a profit off of video clips that you do NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO.. is illegal. I don't give a crap how you look at it. The owners of YouTube knew all along what they were doing and the users did, too. This shouldn't come as a shock.
misspiank 5 years ago
Right on Cutie!!
kiddsock 5 years ago
Especially if we ORGANIZE to do something to hurt their moneyflow
barb99999 5 years ago
YouTubes success is based on massive copyright violations. It is vital for YouTube to maintain quality content to get more visitors. It
would never have been purchased for over $1 billion dollars by Google if it did not have quality video content available for its 10 million per day viewers. Only YouTube is allowed to place ads and make money, from ad traffic you create with your uploaded videos. : ) PWNED!
123darwin123 5 years ago
i tell a lie... i come here for south park as well lol.
lordylordlordoflords 5 years ago
I would gladly watch Colbert and the Daily Show - commercials and promos included - on Comedy Central, *were I in the country.* I'm studying abroad this year. I would give Comedy Central tons of money, cookies, Nutella, anything they wanted if I could watch on Youtube. Ugh, their website sucks.
shazisthegreatest 5 years ago
Too true.
Moreover, no way there to access old clips.
barb99999 5 years ago
Amen
dengueoxum 5 years ago
Last week was hiatus for both Stewart and Colbert with 06 election coverage coming up, Its all about the Benjamins. Like drug dealers.... first one is free baby.
amateurfun 5 years ago
lol evil google... probably. just gonna say, i live in poland and comedy central has only just got here this year... and its in polish... and i dont speak polish... and a word to YouTube and google, i only come here to watch the daily show & colbert report, and i doubt very much im the only one.
lordylordlordoflords 5 years ago
isn't it comedy central asking it to be removed?
srgtick 5 years ago
Google is evil. Seriously. Always have been.
royalseneschal 5 years ago
I could understand removing The Report and The Daily Show if Comedy Central were loosing profit from the clips being viewed here, but they are not! Comedy Central does not sale episodes of either show (excluding Indecision 2004)!
I would gladly give up watching the show on YouTube if the episodes were made available to purchase by the public. but they are not. What the hell are we supposed to do?
Thanks for the Vid!
Oh Lord God I hope they don't go after Exit 57 next!
JessicaFaith 5 years ago
Indeed, the topic of advertising as a cultural, political, and economic institution is far too nuanced to fit into a small comment box. However, if you are still interested, may I suggest Foucault's writings on power, knowledge and discourse or recent literature on intellectual proprty rights. Fascinating stuff!
shelata 5 years ago
Several things could have caused this: Comedy Central receives ad revenue from hits to their website, "Motherload" and they saw hits to their website decreasing; Google's purchase of Youtube could have expedited copyright infringement proceedings; Viacom could have intervened on Comedy Central's behalf; etc. Ad revenue is a very precious commodity for internet sites and television.
shelata 5 years ago
It would be a great idea ask Steven Colber and Jon Stewart what they think about that.
fansntt 5 years ago
Has anyone noticed that TDS segments are fragmented into short sections even on the Comedy Central website? The interview with Bill Bennett for example is posted in its entirety, but split across two videos. Even on CC's own website, it seems to have a 5 minute policy. Perhaps they have some contractual agreement that hinges on 5 minutes, or some kind of corporate policy. They're just extending that same policy to youtube content.
bouncingdot 5 years ago
man, this is major BS... how is someone like me gonna be able to catch true gems like the "daily show" and "colbert report" over here in South America now? Damn it, this only makes poeple hunt for tvrips of the show and guess what... asserted copyright my ass.
cosoraro 5 years ago
Sort of ironic that Stephen Colbert pimped his "green screen challenge" mentioning youtube by name. In fact if I remember correctly it was youtube that inspired the green screen challenge.
johnnystorm0 5 years ago
A lot of us NEED the access that a FREE Youtube has given us: It's the way I send these clips overseas and to 'conservative' [read: Bushie] assholes who need the truth that they only listen to if it's funny.
I know that Colbert and Stewart are serious men, people of conscience who value their access to the public ear.
PLEASE!, SC & JS: HELP US TO KEEP THESE CLIPS. THEIR USEFULNESS IS NOT OVER!
barb99999 5 years ago
I think that the reason Comedy Central is asserting copyright infringement laws now is because after the purchase of youtube by google. More viewers without cable watching CC clips on youtube, the less money Comedy Central gets from cable companies.
GrimFusion 5 years ago
Seems not unlikely.
Other speculation [on Scarborough Country, 30 Oct., by a contributor to Ariana Huffington's blog]:
that Comedy Central has gotten all the free pub it needs from YouTube, and judges that now a 'tipping point' has been reached: CC prefers that we go to ITS [technologically clunky, user unfriendly] website, and so boost THEIR web-presence.
Shame.
barb99999 5 years ago
how the hell r u going to be ale to watch daily show? buy the season dvds?! there arent any, stupid bastards
Magikano 5 years ago
Not everyone has cable! I certainly don't, and youtube was the only place I could watch the Daily Show.
Comedy Central wasn't losing money from video clips being on youtube.
If you people haven't figured it out yet, as soon as anything is seen to be a money maker in this country, corporations will pounce on it like a starving lion.
F*&K Corporate Media ! Everytime cool and new ways to spread information comes out, they buy it up like f*2king hotcakes !
That is all. We're all being farmed.
earlygates 5 years ago
Comedy Central, owned by Viacom, linked to CBS, linked to Westinghouse, a military contractor with ties to the GOP. They want to reduce exposure to people critical of the Republican party before the midterm elections. Plus, they want to rake in more viewers to cable.
skazkipushkina 5 years ago
Comedy Central most probably wants people to watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on there OWN website instead of on Youtube. And I think that Youtube and Google have nothing to do with this particual issue, just Comedy Central.
consciousdreamy 5 years ago
I HAVE noticed this, not just amongst Comedy Central clips. Movie clips and cartoons have been deleted within the last month from my favorites that have been there for months. It's all about the buy-out, I'm sure. Google has different priorities and more to lose if they piss off certain companies.
raspberrytwinkie 5 years ago
Well Comedy Central paid for the content to be made and had it made for the sole purpose to make money by selling advertising on their shows and to sell their shows as dvd's. They didn't spend their money so some web geek could copy their material and post it to another website that website can make money of their material. We are lucky they let anyone post any length of their material. Maybe you should spend some time making your own material instead of just posting someone else's material.
whiteyone 5 years ago
Have you watched my videos? As I mentioned in my video, I only uploaded 1 infringing video as an experiment. The rest of my videos are analysis/criticism covered by fair use exception to copyright
Have you read my previous comments? I have no prob with Comedy Central asserting copyrights. I just want clearer guidelines
Thx 4 feedback :-)
LiberalViewer 5 years ago
I second that. And not just Comedy Central.There's an awful lot of copyright infringement on YouTube and it's not like there aren't rules for uploading.
mycatlilly 5 years ago
shameful as well as silly.
Think a little.
barb99999 5 years ago
It's got to be because of Google now owning YouTube in part, because Google already has pay videos. There'll be more I'm sure, and who bets on Comedy Central being one to be one of the next? Clean house, make agreement, sell videos - that simple.
SirEuchre 5 years ago
It's all great advertising for Comedy Central,
they should let laughing dogs laugh.
EMSlydell 5 years ago
The last thing i've watched on comedy central was that WoW south park episode. which I heard about here first. Its much easier to just set the DVR to record than to watch it here. theres better things to do on the internet/with bandwidth.
paulscott88 5 years ago
"you gave me an std com" new site you need to check out
twinslow80 5 years ago
I'm guessing (like many other people) that it's because google purchased YouTube that turned all these companies interested in keeping their copyright. Afterall, if they can sue YouTube now, they'd make a lot of money.
Mintie 5 years ago
In case you didn't know, Comedy Central is owned by Viacom. Before YouTube was purchased by Google, Viacom probably didn't care about the free promotion at YouTube. They didn't care that YouTube carried their content.
trextor 5 years ago
But now that Google owns YouTube, things have changed. Viacom views Google as a threat and the last thing they want to do is contribute to Google's success/bottom line by providing free content for them. All of a sudden the thought sequence went from "free promotion" to "helping a competitor".
trextor 5 years ago
Judging by how astute Steven Colbert is about technology (see: Wikiality, Green Screen Challenging), the last thing he probably wants is for these clips to be removed from YouTube.
Comedy Central probably loves having their stuff on YouTube. Viacom probably doesn't. Kinda shitty but that's what happens when companies care more about their competition than their viewers/customers.
trextor 5 years ago
bagg them, they are just trying to get exposure through the internet and us poor suspecting viewers
makabroni 5 years ago
Comedy central blows chunks . They've become political commentating bufoons . Just stick with the comedy and leave the ploitics out of it already .
JoeVector 5 years ago
whaaaa?
barb99999 5 years ago
I knew about parody, satire, and education regarding fair use, but not the commentary thing you mentioned in your video. Good looking out man. A good thing to know.
arevolutionofone 5 years ago
Protecting the artist is a scam they use to support their arguments to limit our power. I say it is time for the masses to revolt and seize all the intellectual property in the name of the people. Free Comedy Central You Tube clips for all!
arevolutionofone 5 years ago
Intellectual property, copyrights, trademarks and the like are just a way for the large media conglomerates to control what is communicated and who is able to communcate to the masses. They say it's for the artists, but in truth the artists starve and die poor. Only an elite few ever get rich or make a living. It is the companies and the lawyers who get rich.
arevolutionofone 5 years ago
You realize those things existed before America even had corporations right? They exist to promote and protect the ingenuity that nowadays allows you to pirate music.
What will we be giving up if we lose those protections?
KidIcarus1337 5 years ago
We won't be giving up much because the protections have been usurped by the corporations, who have the money and the power and the lawyers to steal the art from the true artists. Copyrights have been extended far beyond the time they would be able to protect an artist's rights. And that's for the corps. The protections in their current form are almost useless, except for a very lucky few mega stars.
arevolutionofone 5 years ago
well said.
barb99999 5 years ago
If they remain at all, they need to be changed. Anyway, all art, like all humans, wants to be free!
arevolutionofone 5 years ago
I knew google would turn youtube into crap
khaotic1487 5 years ago
Bastards. How are international people meant to get thier colbert/daily show fix now. Sucks.
thematalanifesto 5 years ago
Damn you, Google. Stop thinking you're like King Midas, and believing that everything you touch will turn to gold. Fools.
Oh well, unless... everyone's out to sue people with money, and GOOGLE has money...
asukacrystalrose 5 years ago
This is so depressing.
The daily show on YouTube was my one true fix of the day.
And that Motherload video player is sooo crapy, it's just a waste of my time. The whole "let's make sure they watch 3 adds for every minute of video" is ludicrus. The same insipid adds over and over again. It doesn't work on the Internet. There are products I don't buy anymore because their add made me tooo angry on the internet...grrrr ;)
Plutomio 5 years ago
Hey, copyright infringement is copyright infringement...
It's their right to assert their copyright, so you can't really complain when they do
captainyfronts 5 years ago
They didnt care before GOOGLE
skyliquid2003 5 years ago
Comedy Central probably hates utube bec people are watching comedy central shows for free. who knows, some people may not have cable but they do have a computer. the question tho is why did they just start this. maybe because they got lazy, i dont no
iamshivy 5 years ago
Re copyright assertion: Vast right-wing conspiracy!
morebiersforlibs 5 years ago
thanks to all who email these leftist infringements to comedy central :)
zac118 5 years ago
I removed all of my videos (non Comedy Central clips) about 3 weeks ago in anticipation of these sorts of legal issues.
Folks it was a fun ride, but the Google touch of death has descended and the free ride is over. Time to find the next free and easy to use video hosting service...
prankst3r 5 years ago
You Tube is changing slowly but surely... Make no mistake, copyright infrigement of any kind wont be tolerated eventually. Thank you Google. The corporatocracy will always win... Alway the same story.
MedKes 5 years ago
Thats right Medkes and Prankst3r. Enjoy this while you can cause it will all go away one day.
AdognamedOp 5 years ago
There will be a new youtube. Until that one is screwed too. And so on.
koendeboer 5 years ago
Comedy Central is not the only Studio to take clips off alot from Youtube. I remember Warner Bros. went after clips that their no longer using but claimed it was still thier's. I have a playlist that has daily show clips. And on that day like you said I had to remove about 7 to 8 clips that belonged to the Daily Show from my Playlist. So I understand of what you mean LiberalViewer.
tscastro114 5 years ago