Comments on: Viacom Pulls Clips Off YouTube. Again.

By: Colbert Parody Back on YouTube

Colbert Parody Back on YouTube — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:05:32 +0000

[...] screwed a lot of people with their indiscriminate YouTube takedown, but at least this Stephen Colbert parody is back. Find out why on Inside Online Video. [...]

By: Inside Online Video - A look at the fast rising online video industry

Inside Online Video - A look at the fast rising online video industry — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:53:21 +0000

[...] pulling non-infringing clips from YouTube, including those protected by fair use, Viacom relents on this [...]

By: Inside Online Video - Photobucket Videos Back on MySpace

Inside Online Video - Photobucket Videos Back on MySpace — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:58:32 +0000

[...] course, it’s typical of offline media giants and their online puppets to go back on their word in dealings with independent online media entities. Don’t be surprised if MySpace kicks [...]

By: TV and YouTube: It’s All About the Money

TV and YouTube: It’s All About the Money — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:40:25 +0000

[...] Posted on March 2nd, 2007 in Video by Mike Abundo Paul Kaputska hits the nail on the head: Viacom’s YouTube pulldown and the new NBC chief’s mad ramblings are just pathetic, impatient cries for more money. [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:39:47 +0000

It seems Viacom’s hardball tactics even extend to just its logo in the corner of the screen. Hundreds of old “Sesame Street” clips got yanked (and their posters got barred), even though the clips had been there for months, and, technically, Viacom doesn’t own the material; Sesame Workshop does (and it doesn’t seem to have a problem, because it knows that clips on YouTube are great advertising). BUT! A lot of those clips had been taped off Noggin, which is owned by Viacom, and as such, they had the Noggin logo in the corner of the screen. So Viacom ordered them taken down, because of that logo, not because Viacom actually owned the content of the clip. It’s as though an original user-created clip happened to have a TV in the background, on which “Spongebob” was playing. Even though that TV was so tiny and quiet that you could scarcely detect it, Viacom would claim copyright infringement and order the clip removed.

I’ve heard of quite a lot of cases of totally innocent, totally original clips, with nothing at all to do with any Viacom content or product, being arbitrarily removed.

As for me, with the huge amounts of spam I’ve gotten since registering on YouTube, not to mention the hassle of weeding through 1000-word blocks of keyword spam (much of it containing obscenities) in order to find what I’m looking for, I’ve left YouTube. If they’re going to go at this like someone using an atomic bomb to kill a housefly, I say, to hell with them all. In England, the equivalent of the Finger is the V-Sign. And that’s precisely what I’m giving to YouTube and to Viacom.

By: EFF Calls for YouTube Viacom Victims

EFF Calls for YouTube Viacom Victims — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:06:28 +0000

[...] Viacomâ€™s YouTube takedown was even more indiscriminate than ABS-CBNâ€™s takedown, somehow sweeping videos completely unrelated to Viacom. [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:09:42 +0000

Oh, and since this is the second time this happens, I have totally lost my patience with YouTube, Viacom, and Comedy Central. You don’t want me as viewer? Fine. I will watch something else, somewhere else. Forget that I even found out about the Daily Show on YouTube… These stupid losers think that people spend all day long in front of the TV. Not any more. I watch what I want when I want. If you take it away, I won’t chase you to your little TV show at the time you decide. I forget you and move on to something else…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:06:34 +0000

No more Daily Show or Colbert Report on YouTube? Fine. I will never use YouTube again.

By: baddie

baddie — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:41:16 +0000

It always amuses me whenever I hear this kind of stupidity from dumb execs.