{"id":9819,"date":"2006-10-27T22:05:21","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T05:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/10\/27\/comedy-central-lawyers-shoot-goose-in-dispute-over-golden-egg.html"},"modified":"2006-10-27T22:05:21","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T05:05:21","slug":"comedy_central_lawyers_sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/27\/comedy_central_lawyers_sh.html","title":{"rendered":"Comedy Central lawyers shoot goose in dispute over golden egg"},"content":{"rendered":"

The suits down at Comedy Central apparently are worried that people aren’t watching The Daily Show<\/em> on their channel — what, with its good sound and video quality — but instead are choosing to watch their show solely through crappy little YouTube clips that people have been posting at the site. Legally, they have a leg to stand on, but the suits don’t realize that (a) nobody really does that, and (b) YouTube is the greatest advertising for a hip show like The Daily Show there could be. <\/p>\n

I mean, you have enough people dragging you to their machine (or sending you e-mails with links) to show you what really funny thing Jon Stewart said yesterday — and sooner or later you’re either going to watch the thing, or record it, or at least pass on news to those folks who can. It’s publicity by piracy, but it’s a powerful meme that’s almost certainly gained the channel more viewers than it’s lost.<\/p>\n

Ah, well. They’ve slapped YouTube with a DMCA Cease-and-Desist order<\/a>, regardless. So … fewer people will end up seeing TDS, and fewer people will talk about it. I’m pretty sure that’s not their intent, but it’s what will be the result. Darned clever, in a way that isn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The suits down at Comedy Central apparently are worried that people aren’t watching The Daily Show on their channel — what, with its good sound and video quality — but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49537,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/jon-stewart-will-be-heading-off-for-that-well-deserved-nap.html","url_meta":{"origin":9819,"position":0},"title":"Jon Stewart will be heading off for that well-deserved nap","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Feb-15 5:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"Stewart will be leaving \"The Daily Show\" later this year (his contract is up in the fall), which marks a sea change in comedy news even greater than the departure of Stephen Colbert (I expect some heavy drinking amongst Comedy Channel executives for a while).There will be plenty of time\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9924,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/10\/gootube.html","url_meta":{"origin":9819,"position":1},"title":"GooTube","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Oct-06 6:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"While I'm not nearly enough of a tech\/news\/finance wonk to have any great insight into what the Google acquisition of YouTube will really mean in the long run, it does...","rel":"","context":"In "Hi-Tech"","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11721,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/17\/and_dont_forget_the_bit_a.html","url_meta":{"origin":9819,"position":2},"title":"And don’t forget the bit about “Fiber One”","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 17-Feb-08 8:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While playing Galactic this afternoon, some conversation about alien probes reminded Randy of an old comedy bit which I immediately remembered, too\u00a0-- the \"Rigid Sigmoidoscope\" routine done by the late...","rel":"","context":"In "Jokes"","block_context":{"text":"Jokes","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/jokes"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133369,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/28\/were-running-out-of-space-suits.html","url_meta":{"origin":9819,"position":3},"title":"We're running out of … space suits?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Apr-17 5:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The current suits are \"prohibitively expensive\" to make more of, have suffered unexpected attrition (due to shuttle disasters, mostly), and are reaching their expiry date. 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