Who am I kidding? I live in CANADA and I’m mourning.
They killed Kenny.
It’s true. Newscloud (via Boingboing) reports that the worst has happened. Civilian observers in the war against big media report 15256 casualties as a result of Comedy Central’s strike against YouTube.
- 2546 of the dead are Daily Shows
- 2038 are Colbert Reports
- and, in a stunning slaughter unmatched since Israel’s strike on Lebanon, a staggering 10672 of the losses came from the small community of South Park.
now, the report from the front lines:
…a third party (probably attorneys for Comedy Central) had made a DMCA request to take down Colbert Report and Daily Show clips. If you visit YouTube, all Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park clips now show “This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.”
For a long time, Comedy Central has passively allowed the sharing of online clips of its shows—because let’s face it, it’s helped them generate the kind of water cooler talk that has made them a ton of money.
Even Stevphens, we hardly knew ye. (oopsie, this one’s still kicking: watch it while you can)
A tragedy to be sure. But inevitable with the Goobling up of YouTube. How tragic that there may never be another place to watch South Park episodes online.
Great, thanks!
Now what can you do with the Daily Show? What will I do without someone to make fun of Bush when he says stupid things? Also, Carrell is kinda cute.
Dammit, WordPress has gone on the fritz and I can’t edit the post. I wanted to put the BoingBoing link in there, for the updates.
Here:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/27/youtube_removes_come.html
LOVE the name of the link, btw.
Phew,
my WORD and TDS segmets are still alive and well on youtube :)
Oops, shouldn’t have said that I guess.
I think unless you’re a Comedy Central star you should be okay…but from now on, make sure the contract reserves for you the right to post it to YouTube. I think that’s going to have to be standard from now on.
Links???