Reuters quotes a Viacom source confirming the company did ask YouTube to take down “some” clips as part of “ongoing negotiations on how the companies can work together.” So a negotiating ploy, perhaps? Many Comedy Central videos are still available after Friday’s purge. Meanwhile, a Colbert Report fan site writes:
The glory days of YouTube are officially over. I knew it would happen, but I never thought it would happen only three months after I started up this website. (sigh) Now, all is not totally lost. Comedy Central does have Motherload. However, one cannot post Motherload clips onto a blog, or bookmark them and save as favorites, or actually play them with any relative ease. But at least it’s something.
Exactly what I’ve written before in explaining why Lost Remote links YouTube for Comedy Central clips. (Via MediaShift)
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word has it motherload’s ability to share and embed video will be enhanced very soon, possibly by the end of the year.
I realize that the Sysop from Vienna made “synergy” a bad word, but Viacom owns iFilm through MTV Networks. iFilm is an old, established brand which I assume is profitably selling advertising, so why wouldn’t MTV Networks only allow their stuff on their site and why wouldn’t they make it easily embeddable from there?