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    • Pride v. Publicity

      Posted by Jeff from Market Watch

      These technical copyright violations which stem from the ease in which computer technology can copy and distribute material tend to be promotional and valuable for those who are complaining about it. With no exceptions these are essentially free publicity and free promotion. Now I can understand how certain marketing types hate it when someone else does their jobs (and does it better). But it is not the marketing types who are complaining about these violations. It's often the writers and artists and their guilds and unions too.

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    • Idealog: YouTube Comedy Central DMCA Notices Continue

      Posted by Jeff from Idealog.US

      I just received a takedown notice for another Daily Show video in my YouTube account: CNN iReport. Spot checking yesterday's list of 400 working clips shows a majority have now been taken down. I'm guessing reports of a settlement with Viacom were premature. YouTube is fast becoming the political ad hosting network.

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    • Truthiness is scarce at Viacom and YouTube this week

      Posted by Jeff

      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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    • Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal - Blog Maverick

      Posted by Jeff

      via Waxy Links: > In the months preceding the sale of YouTube the complaints from > copyright owners began to mount at a ferocious pace. Small content > owners and big were lodging official takedown notices only to see > their works almost immediately reappear. These issues had to be > disclosed to the suitors who were sniffing around like Google but > Yahoo was deep in the process as well.

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      YouTube Is Purging Copyrighted Clips

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      The action was “a result of third-party notification by Comedy Central,” according to one such e-mail message sent to a YouTube user, Jeff Reifman, who broke the news on the Web site NewsCloud.

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      YouTube Takes Down Comedy Central Clips Based on DMCA Claims

      Posted by Jeff

      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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    charlieprofit comments on:

    Obama's Transparent Presidency: Weekly YouTube Addresses

    Obama will cause more of a recession. He wants to implement all kinds of programs. The money has to come from somewhere. We already know he is going to raise taxes on the very companies that provide jobs to the people. In order for those companies to afford the increase, prices will go up. People will buy less. Employees will get laid off. Welfare will be at an all time high. With the US Gov handing out checks, there will be a larger influx of immigrants (legal and illegal) which will put even more strain. McCain would NOT raise those taxes and would create incentives to stimulate job growth which would obviously get the economy going. Can it be explained any more simple?

     

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    4:38 pm 11/16/08
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    wmurray8 comments on:

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    The only fear I have is an economical fear. A total collapse of the world economy. I have absolutely no fear of any country’s military aggression. I do have a fear thatourr country is going into a severe recession or depression. The mismangement of our economy and our getting off the gold standard will be the cause of it. It will not only cause a severe reciession in the US but the world as well. It has already started… I am totally out of equities and are in all cash positions. Others would be wise to do the same. As far as Obama is concerned, he will will do a better job the anyone else who could have been selected.

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    4:19 pm 11/16/08
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    charlieprofit comments on:

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    @oneohone Thank you.

    Incidentally I wanted to point out to popdaddy that the whole "McSame" campaign was also a fear mongering campaign. Trying to make people fear McCain as being the same as Bush. McCain isn’t Bush anymore than Obama is Wright. But by your own belief system, you associate McCain with Bush, so Obama can also be associated with Ayers or Wright. You can’t have it two different way. But you are a liberal and that is exactly how you think, duplicitously. And that is a major reason I do not like Obama, he is duplicitous.

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    3:27 pm 11/16/08
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    oneohone comments on:

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    Posted 1:50 am 11/16/08 popdaddy ""I’d like to hear less Palin/McCain fear-mongerism and more charlieprofit in his response to wmurray8’s 11/16. 1:50 post.  Thinkk(k) we’ll get it?  Fear is a control tactic used by small-minded people.

    But, your whining is not accomplishing anything other than contributing to more baseless fear/hatred.  "

    To be clear, I did not vote for either Obama or McCain.You need to look in a mirror.  You are just what you accuse charlieprofit of being.

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    3:15 pm 11/16/08
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    charlieprofit comments on:

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    @wmurray8 – Your question is easy to answer: Everything.

    @popdaddy – Your inference of kkk towards me is disgusting. Who is the fear monger now? It IS possible to look beyond skin color and look at character, experience, political record, his personal beliefs, and make a sound rational decision that Obama is not the guy for the job. Ask any Fortune 500 company, based on Obama’s resume alone, if they would hire him as CEO. I’m sure 500 out of 500 would give you a solid NO. So why on Earth di the most powerful Country in the World elect him as CEO and Commander in Chief. If McCain went to a Church that promoted KKK you be furious. Well, what do you have to say about Obama’s church of almost 20 years? Yeah, I hear a doube standard coming…Again if it were McCain that was associated with Ayers, you would be all over it. You clearly do not think logically or rationally, you only think how to twist things to suit your purpose, and not the greater good.

    Incidentally, I am not whining or saying "woe is me we are all doomed". Typical liberal fashion to put words in anothers mouth. You don’t know me, don’t pretend to.

    Ayers has not changed WHO HE IS, he may have changed his TACTICS. Changing tactics is not a change in character. Even Ayers himself has said he does not regret what he has done. And he still hates America. Know he is just trying to get his message across to our youth through "education". He still hates America.

    Hmmmmmm….but despite the fact that you ask for facts to my claims, you will disregard them because they come from someone that does not share your belief system. Hmmmmmmm…..

    Welcome to the WSA = Welfare States of America!

     

     

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    2:44 pm 11/16/08
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    popdaddy comments on:

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     I believe charlieprofit is omitted the last "k" on the end of his version of the word "think" (1st line, 2nd sentence  of his 11/15/08, 10:15 post)  I’d like to hear less Palin/McCain fear-mongerism and more charlieprofit in his response to wmurray8’s 11/16. 1:50 post.  Thinkk(k) we’ll get it?  I hope so.  Fear is a control tactic used by small-minded people who don’t know how to address their own disappointments; so it’s always others’ faults and beyond their control.  Unfortunately, charlieprofit doesn’t seem to understand that even if his reservations were valid, it would be better to offer some reasonable suggestions of how to improve the conditions for himself and others instead of just whining, "poor me! woe is me! we is alllll doomed!  we been tricked!  we is gonna die!  Tell me how you’ve become so "poor"; tell me where is the "woe"; educate us on the "hat trick" (make it relevant to current events, not the past).  Once you spell that out, then tell me how you propose that it can be addressed.  But, your whining is not accomplishing anything other than contributing to more baseless fear/hatred.  

    As far as "Ayers" is concerned,  I was always taught that "correlation is NOT causation".  In other words, just because 2 or more entities occur simultaneously, doesn’t mean one causes the other.  If Ayers and Obama are related in some way, who is influencing who; in which direction in this connection driven?  Is the fact that both feel strongly about juvenile justice and children’s education the more salient connection?  And, it seems that Mr. Ayers DID change his tactics (contrary to charlieprofit’s claims that people don’t change who they are).  He found that no matter how valid your point, you find a wider, more supportive audience with non-violent tactics and a clear presentation of the facts/evidence.  Hmmmmmmm.  Even McCain found that intelligence trumps fear!

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    6:21 am 11/16/08
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    wmurray8 comments on:

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    Specifically does bothers you about Obama’s political leanings or his philosophy? 

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    1:50 am 11/16/08
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    Jeff

    Member since Nov 2008

    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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