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YouTube's Comedy Compromise
After a brief moratorium, YouTube is once again a leading source for fake news.
Thousands of clips from the Daily Show and the Colbert Report reappeared on the video site Tuesday after being yanked over the weekend due to a copyright complaint from Viacom, Comedy Central's parent company.
Full episodes of the programs, on the other hand, were no longer available through the site.
Speculation about the reasoning for Viacom's decision to pull its programming focused on Google's acquisition of YouTube for $1.65 billion earlier this month.
Industry experts had predicted that the buyout would lead media companies to seek reimbursement for their pirated clips, rather than looking the other way, as had been the trend with regard to YouTube.
Comedy Central sells episodes of many of its top shows, including The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, for $1.99 a pop via Apple's iTunes Store.
In a statement Monday, Viacom clarified that it was trying to strike a balance between protecting its content and pleasing its audience.
"Like our peers in the media industry, we are focused on finding the right business model for professionally created content to be legally distributed on the Internet," the statement read.
"We want our audiences to be able to access our programming on every platform and we're interested in having it live on all forms of distribution in ways that protect our talented artists, our loyal customers and our passionate audiences."
The media conglomerate originally put YouTube on notice Friday, with a letter requesting that the site purge all Comedy Central content, as well as programming from VHI, MTV, BET and Nickelodeon.
After the site obligingly cleaned house, those who clicked on clips from the banned shows received the message: "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation."
Meanwhile, those who had uploaded clips from the show were warned that if they persisted in doing so, their YouTube accounts would be banned.
In response, one user by the name of LiberalViewer posted a video clip titled "Why Did Comedy Central Assert Copyrights Now?" As of Tuesday, the clip had been viewed over 15,000 times.
Though the initial Comedy Central ban sparked dire predictions the Internet wide that YouTube's glory days were over, it seems that such fears may have been a little premature.
For now, at least, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Eric Cartman still have a presence on the site. They just might not be as longwinded as they were before.
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