GooTube III
Because neither the owners of YouTube nor Comedy Central are talking about it, we're left to speculate as to just what content has disappeared from the popular video-sharing Web site. (Earlier this week we wrote how some YouTubers had been informed that some video they'd posted with "The Daily Show" "The Colbert Report" and "South Park" had been taken down at the request of copyright holders.)
Jeff Reifman at Idealog has done a detailed analysis of what's missing and found this:
About 23 percent of the "South Park" videos were missing as well as 35 percent of the "Colbert Report" videos and 46 percent of the "Daily Show" videos. Contrary to speculation elsewhere, the videos still available on the site were not just the shorter ones. So, basically, I'm still not sure what's happened. Will keep on it.
Comedy Central is also running ads this week to promote the fact that you can watch the full episodes of this weeks Daily Show Battlefield Ohio series online at comedycentral.com "instead of on some crappy blog." Seriously -- direct quote.