Ever since they bought YouTube, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report videos have started disappearing, and the people who had the most Daily Show and Colbert Report clips, have started getting their channels suspended or just had all their videos removed. :mad:
O.K., that's not entirely true. First Google bought YouTube and everything was fine, but then, a few days later, Stephen Colbert, on his show, in his "ReThug Stephen Colbert" persona, mentioned the sale and how, since there were something like 2300+ Colbert Report video clips on YouTube, that he was RICH! Because, he said, that's something like 10% of all the videos on YouTube (probably not true) so that meant that YouTube owed him 10% of that $1.56 Billion Dollars, or something like $5 Million Dollars. I think he was joking, though I'm not totally sure.:shrug:
So the next day, I started noticing Daily Show and Colbert clips disappearing. Then some of the Classic, politically important and very hard to find Daily Show clips that I had uploaded there, started getting randomly rejected, supposedly for copyright infringement. These were not new clips or clips that are available on any DVD or VHS tape that Comedy Central is, or ever was, selling on-line of in stores, they were from 2 to 5 years ago, that had been up for months, that started getting "rejected." Mostly they are clips that contain video that is Historically significant Political News and/or politically embarrassing (for Republicans). The politically embarrassing clips were the first to go.
So, I feel, Colbert's speech (joke?) on his show the other night, has either freaked out the lawyers at Google/YouTube, so are scrubbing YouTube of any clips that even MIGHT invite a lawsuit, or Colbert's speech was a "The Parties Over" notice to his fans at YouTube.
The problem is, the people who argue "Delete them ALL, they are Pirated video..." and claim that the Copyright Law is very clear about this are very wrong. The Copyright law is very unclear when you also take into account the "Fair Use" clause of the Copyright Law, something the "delete 'em all" folks almost never do. Hell, if you read the copyright law selectively, like the previously mentioned crowd does, most of what is on YouTube would infringe on somebodies Copyright in one way or another, so YouTube would be dead within months.
Either way, it Really Sucks! I could go into it further, but what's really important is the news I posted below.
Also, I would guess that The Daily Show and Colbert fan traffic is a BIG chunk of YouTubes' daily hits, so if any of you hold any Google stock, you might want to keep an eye on it's price.
:hi: But I DO have some REALLY GOOD NEWS! :hi:
There (their?) are hundreds of Classic and New Daily Show and Colbert Report videos at an almost identical (it uses the same technology) and just as well known site, but their videos section is a much less well know part of this site, and their TDS and Colbert clips get much less traffic than those on YouTube did. It does seem a little bit slower when posting the videos though.
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MySpace's video section. I know, MySpace is owned my Rupert Murdock, but I've been on MySpace for 2 months now, and I've yet to see any Murdock influences.
And Check this out! I was going though the The Daily Show videos, just now, and found one of the BEST EVER clips!
Some of you might remember back, during the The Daily Shows week of coverage of the 2004 RNC convention, when Stephen Colbert interviewed Porn Star Mary Carey and her Producer from "Kick Ass Video" Mark? Remember the Pizza?
Well I found that video and it was posted BY MARK! The Porn Producer! Remember, he was the guy who paid the RNC a certain amount of money and was given some honorary title from the RNC!
Anyway, I don't want to give away too much for those who never saw it, but here's the link:
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http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=912659090>
Link to MySpace User Videos:
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http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.videos>
Here's my Daily Show search link, not sure if it would still be good:
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http://vidsearch.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.fullsearch&TotalRecords=339>
If you want to find more, just put the words Daily Show into the video search box, and you'll find lots more, and if you have a MySpace page, leave Mark a message and tell thanks him for helping to show the Republicans as the Hypocrites they are.
NOTE: If any English Majors out their could look over this message send me a kind note about if I used the proper forms of the word "There" and "Their," I had a lot of trouble in school with my English Grammar, and have forgotten the rule for that word, but would like to improve my English grammar.