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Forget YouTube: Go To These Sites If You Want Hard Core Copyright Infringing Content

Posted by Jeff from Tech Crunch

TechCrunch points the way towards downloading your favorite episodes of South Park, Scrubs and more.

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Man With Twin Living Inside Him

Posted by Jeff from ABC News

I love stories like this because I get to say nonchalantly, there's a South Park for that.

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Reason Magazine - South Park Libertarians

Posted by Jeff from Reason

Trey Parker and Matt Stone on liberals, conservatives, censorship, and religion.

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Truthiness is scarce at Viacom and YouTube this week

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Surprisingly, most of the mainstream reporters who interviewed me about breaking the story Friday, October 27th that Comedy Central had issued copyright takedown notices to YouTube wanted me to verify that any videos were actually taken down at all. More recently, some media blogs are asking whether I started an unsubstantiated rumor based only on the two takedown notices that I received directly.

Tonight, using the Google Search API, I wrote a short PHP script to tabulate content from YouTube that is present or missing based on top search hits from Google’s search engine. I’ve posted my results at Idealog .

While not entirely scientific or entirely representative, my top line results show that 349 of 764 or 46 percent of the top Daily Show clips in Google search results are missing and broken, 190 of 537 or 35 percent of the Colbert Report results and 138 of 594 or 23 percent of South Park results. So, while you can still find 2,723 videos at YouTube.com of the Daily Show, 881 videos of the Colbert Report and 6,660 of South Park, the percentage of broken links from Google’s top results show that there either has been an ongoing take down or a large recent takedown effort at YouTube.

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YouTube Takes Down Comedy Central Clips Based on DMCA Claims

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I received a couple of emails from YouTube this afternoon (see below) notifying me that a third party (probably attorneys for Comedy Central) had made a DMCA request to take down Colbert Report and Daily Show clips. If you visit YouTube, all Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park clips now show “This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.”

For a long time, Comedy Central has passively allowed the sharing of online clips of its shows—because let’s face it, it’s helped them generate the kind of water cooler talk that has made them a ton of money. In this Wired Interview , Jon Stewart and Daily Show Executive Producer even encouraged viewers to watch the show on the Internet:

Karlin: If people want to take the show in various forms, I’d say go. But when you’re a part of something successful and meaningful, the rule book says don’t try to analyze it too much or dissect it. You shouldn’t say: “I really want to know what fans think. I really want to understand how people are digesting our show.” Because that is one of those things that you truly have no control over. The one thing that you have control over is the content of the show. But how people are reacting to it, how it’s being shared, how it’s being discussed, all that other stuff, is absolutely beyond your ability to control.

Stewart: I’m surprised people don’t have cables coming out of their asses, because that’s going to be a new thing. You’re just going to get it directly fed into you. I look at systems like the Internet as a convenience. I look at it as the same as cable or anything else. Everything is geared toward more individualized consumption. Getting it off the Internet is no different than getting it off TV.

But apparently, all good things come to an end when there is money and attorneys involved. I assume the only online clips that will remain will have to qualify under fair use – probably short clips, with social or political importance.

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South Park Celebrates Tenth Anniversary with Best of DVD

Posted by Jeff from New York Times

Both men point to the episode “Scott Tenorman Must Die” as the turning point for the show. Presented on July 11, 2001, it featured an older boy who cons Eric Cartman into believing that a sign of maturity is when a boy buys his first pubic hair. Tenorman sells pubic hairs to Cartman, whose friends Stan, Kyle and Kenny rip him for being tricked. Cartman seeks revenge by chopping up Tenorman’s parents and feeding them to him in a bowl of chili.

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"South Park" Roasts Chef, Literally

Posted by Jeff from Delaware News Journal

In the end, Chef dies a million Kenny deaths, only to live on, sort of, as a Darth Vader version of himself. If you didn't see Darth Chef - you missed a good laugh. And the mockery of scientoligist as a group of alien child molesters is sort of funny as well.

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