Only long clips pulled from YouTube?
Cory Bergman November 1st, 2006
(Updated) 
Finally a straight answer involving Friday’s purge of Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park clips from YouTube. The NY Post reports that Comedy Central asked that longer clips be pulled. Jeff from Idealog.us built a script to roughly analyze how many clips were yanked from YouTube, and he found that approximately 46 percent of Daily Show clips, 35 percent of Colbert Report clips and 23 percent of South Park clips are missing after the purge. And he found that both long and short clips were removed. “Take downs seemed indiscriminate,” he says. So perhaps the mystery isn’t entirely solved.
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1. Jeff | November 1st, 2006 at 10:59 am
Actually, my data refutes the published claim in the NY Post. Long clips, short clips - take downs seemed indiscriminate.
Look at my blog post or on NewsCloud for more details.
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