Fuck, they are messing with Youtube

[LSK]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/technology/03tube.html?ex=1328158800&en=d8c0953ce2250931&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

In a sign of the growing tension between old-line media and the new Internet behemoths, Viacom, the parent company of MTV and Comedy Central, demanded yesterday that YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google, remove more than 100,000 clips of its programming.

Viacom, along with other major media companies, including the News Corporation and NBC Universal, has become increasingly frustrated with YouTube as it has amassed a vast library of copyrighted clips, placed on the site by its users.

While such companies regularly ask YouTube to remove their material, Viacom’s demand, which it disclosed in a statement circulated by e-mail, was the most militant and public move of its kind so far.

As it has with the similar request from other companies, Google removed the Viacom clips from the YouTube site yesterday.

:grr: :grr:

[idgiehkt]

1. and we the people will load it right back on there.

nyah nyah, nyah nyah nyah

[Breeze54]

2. That was a while ago....

:shrug:

[Fran Kubelik]

3. They did that about 6 weeks ago.

Half my favorites disappeared. :mad:

[idgiehkt]

6. lol

I noticed and my thought was, wow, they did it AGAIN? But I've been able to watch all the stuff because people are loading it back on or because they missed it. Half the time people spell stuff wrong or tag it wrong and if you get creative you can find it. I found one of my favorite Johnny Cash songs on there when I was almost at the point of giving up, whoever put it on there had labeled it "JC". Seriously, that is all, just the initials and no song title.

[deepthought42]

4. Fucking A...

:grr::grr:

[Pierre.Suave]

5. COMEDY CENTRAL?

there go the daily show clips...

[idgiehkt]

9. they pull it and people will put it right back on there

It's a revolution, lol.

[Hugin]

7. Somewhere, somehow, someone is happy...

I've heard the old-line media lies awake at night figuring out ways to keep this from happening.

[BurtWorm]

8. That stinks.

They want to make it into PyewTube.

[Initech]

10. Damn it, I wish Google had never bought YouTube.

It used to be great. Fuck them.

[Catfight]

11. It was just a matter of time, 2008 is coming and they don't want instant

embarrassing video that could damage the likability factor. They are scared shit-less.

[ghostsofgiants]

12. It's really amazing how adamantly these companies resist technology.