Currently on youtube, about 100,000 of the video clips are owned by Viacom (which have accounted for 1.2 billion views). This includes everything from Comedy Central, VH1, MTV, and countless other networks (Viacom quietly owns the entire western hemisphere, while another company, Softbank owns the other side of the planet).
Viacom has ordered that youtube remove them.
Holy shit... with no more Southpark, John Stewart, Brittney Spears, etc... all that's going to be left are videos of stupid kids lighting themselves on fire.
Viacom blows goats.... then gargles.
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As far as I knew this had happened ages ago... Daily Show hasn't been on YouTube in forever.
It doesn't matter to me. This whole thing got ruined the second Google bought it, which is why Viacom is slamming down. It doesn't make sense for them to allow someone else to make profits off of their intellectual property. If it were mine and Google was making dollars, shit would blow up like the Godfather.
It doesn't matter to me. This whole thing got ruined the second Google bought it, which is why Viacom is slamming down. It doesn't make sense for them to allow someone else to make profits off of their intellectual property. If it were mine and Google was making dollars, shit would blow up like the Godfather.
"Fear of the bee means the honey is for me" - Jhonn Balance
I'm afraid I'm with Mifta here, doesn't happen often but it happened today 
The whole of my income comes from getting people with interesting intellectual property (yes even pornographers but they're NOT the majority) paid. In the new content economy, there are two things that are to be revered as law, IP rights and respect for personally identifiable information. If you're doing business in this space and ignore either of these, you won't be in business long.
It's not the government you have to worry about anymore. The .com environment has changed over the past few years. Most successful .coms, now, have legal teams larger than their development teams. If they have IP rights and you violate them, the federal trade commission will look like a vacation in Hawaii compared to these guys.
If Youtube is violating IP rights, I'm voting for the prosecutors.
The whole of my income comes from getting people with interesting intellectual property (yes even pornographers but they're NOT the majority) paid. In the new content economy, there are two things that are to be revered as law, IP rights and respect for personally identifiable information. If you're doing business in this space and ignore either of these, you won't be in business long. It's not the government you have to worry about anymore. The .com environment has changed over the past few years. Most successful .coms, now, have legal teams larger than their development teams. If they have IP rights and you violate them, the federal trade commission will look like a vacation in Hawaii compared to these guys.
If Youtube is violating IP rights, I'm voting for the prosecutors.
"The age demanded that we sing, and cut away our tongue. The age demanded that we flow, and hammered in the bung. The age demanded that we dance, and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded."
Once upon a time in America.....LOL love starting a sentence that way! There was a thing called PUBLIC airways. The INTERNETS is changing the world of course. But in america greed of course out trumps public airwyas it seems. I, you, and every person using a device that puts out or receives a signle of any kind pays fees for the use of those lines by way of taxes, yes public monies! Thus making the airways and telephone/internet lines maintained with public funds, hence why we have an FCC. Taxes on internet buys, banning me from sharing music I purchase, or shows I purchase via my satilite dish are big issues. Bottom line of this issue is greed! It can not and will not ever be stopped. I, by the way do not share any of my media content, but I do look at You Tube and watch various video contents. But if you Tivo a show, then invite freinds over to watch that show when they have no means to watch it in their own home are you not guilty of many of the issues at hand? It all seems to me like the Vegan wearing leather shoes. Most Americans will claim to be law biding citizens too. But take it in a literal sense we all know this not to be true if one drives the roads at all! My point is we as a people choose what we feel is right or wrong, laws or no laws, morality walks a very thin line in American culture.
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My view, of course, has its limitations.
"Fear of the bee means the honey is for me" - Jhonn Balance
