Comments for "An Open Letter to Comedy Central and Viacom" Talk at VideoSift.com

By maatc

maatc (http://maatc.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:01:26 -0800

Thats awesome! Just tried to DIGG it and dag apparently already put it up.

http://digg.com/business_finance/An_Open_Letter_to_Comedy_Central_and_Viacom

Good work, lets spread the word!

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:01:55 -0800

And with that, I'm off to bed. Definitely past my bedtime for a Monday night in Australia.

By K0MMIE

K0MMIE (http://www.videosift.com/member/K0MMIE) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:03:38 -0800

I "Digg" it Dag.

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:22:24 -0800

Dugg, but only four votes.

I sent it to Blue's News too.

By twiddles

twiddles (http://www.videosift.com/member/twiddles) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:30:45 -0800

Very well done Dag a *quality submission!

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:30:46 -0800

Awarding dag with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by twiddles.

By maatc

maatc (http://maatc.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:56:15 -0800

dugg it, reddit, bookmarked it on de.licio.us, twittered the digg and reddit links, what else is there? this needs to be on all the frontpages!

By choggie

choggie (http://www.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:10:52 -0800

Dag, could you make sure they get my farewell salutation???
http://www.videosift.com/video/Farewell-Comedy-Central

And for alll you CC employees, who may be reading this, just to let you know, this dissenting voice comes not through the mouth of some rabid neo-con......comes from someone who thinks the writers on the Daily Show and Bill Maher, are frikkin' hack, coke-freaks, and that there are more effective ways, than regurgitated, sophomoric, sarcasm, to editorialize comedically....

By maatc

maatc (http://maatc.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:50:45 -0800

Just edited the Wikipedia entry for Criticism for Comedy Central

Also updated "Accepted Videos" section of the Videosift Wikipedia entry

By winkler1

winkler1 (http://www.videosift.com/member/winkler1) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:15:24 -0800

Well put!

By Zifnab

Zifnab (http://zifnab.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:47:51 -0800

Very well said.

By H0Ju

H0Ju (http://www.videosift.com/member/H0Ju) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:08:08 -0800

I know I'm nit-picking, but could you at least spell Jon Stewart's name right, otherwise it seems like you don't even follow the show.

Everything else is the way it's meant to be. Thanks for sticking up for us foreigners.

By dotdude

dotdude (http://dotdude.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:51:56 -0800

Dugg and liked!

By darkrowan

darkrowan (http://www.videosift.com/member/darkrowan) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:54:46 -0800

I'll digg/reddit later (I don't have accounts there, surprisingly) I have put an attempt to Fark it. I'll try Slashdot's firehose here in a bit.

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:19:20 -0800

Doh. Thanks Hoju - changed spelling of Jon.

By Fedquip

Fedquip (http://fedquip.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:51:20 -0800

Thanks for the open letter Dag. I got stupidly excited last month when Viacom launched thedailyshow.com and offered every single clip for free online.

Turns out party only lasted a couple weeks as the Daily Show website is now also blocked for International viewers.

I thought only countries like Iran and China blocked of the outside world on the Internet? Ah well, I guess it shouldn't surprise us that America can now be put in the same category...Tip of the berg?

By rbar

rbar (http://www.videosift.com/member/rbar) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:05:34 -0800

*quality letter! I even have Digg and Reddit logins now.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:05:34 -0800

Invocations (quality) cannot be called by rbar because rbar is not privileged - sorry.

By mlx

mlx (http://mlx.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:48:38 -0800

definitely *quality

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:48:38 -0800

dag has already been awarded a star point for this post - ignoring quality request by mlx.

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://www.videosift.com/member/MarineGunrock) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:56:46 -0800

I don't know if you just haven't gotten around to it yet, but I'm still seeing the little CC logo tiles on the side bar and on the submission screen.

By looris

looris (http://www.videosift.com/member/looris) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:10:14 -0800

gg dag

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:24:11 -0800

Blue's News posted my link to this. =)

By Fjnbk

Fjnbk (http://www.videosift.com/member/Fjnbk) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:42:07 -0800

Maybe you should tell them exactly how many members we have, and more importantly, how many don't live in the U.S.

By JAPR

JAPR (http://www.videosift.com/member/JAPR) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:54:08 -0800

awesome post, dag

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:20:15 -0800

>> Maybe you should tell them exactly how many members we have

We would tell them how many visitors we have on a monthly basis, but we're about to reach a milestone and we're saving that for a Big Announcement™

By oxdottir

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:29:07 -0800

Thank you for the articulate and reasonable letter. How could they resist?

By maatc

maatc (http://maatc.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:35:32 -0800

>> We would tell them how many visitors we have on a monthly basis, but we're about to reach a milestone and we're saving that for a Big Announcement™

This is what I would like to hear:

VideoSift has now reached 100% coverage with every creature on the planet now using the site. From the huge profits of last quarter VideoSift bids to take over Viacom. Also announcing: The VideoSift-Phone (unlocked)

I am not too far off, no?

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:45:45 -0800

^ Hey, how did you get a copy of our Powerpoint presentation?

By maatc

maatc (http://maatc.videosift.com) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:52:23 -0800

^ I is in Ur Prezentationz, stealing your announzements™

Looks like this story is currently #1 for "Hot in Business & Finance" on Digg (with 49 votes).

If you haven´t dugg it yet, make sure to do and get this all the way to the front page.

By karaidl

karaidl (http://www.videosift.com/member/karaidl) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:03:18 -0800

Does the big announcement involve getting naked? If it doesn't, do you mind if I still do that?

By qualm

qualm (http://www.videosift.com/member/qualm) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:23:56 -0800

Terse, clear and well-written.

By MINK

MINK (http://www.videosift.com/member/MINK) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:16:56 -0800

Dear Viacom,

Do what the fuck you want with material you created and paid for, I couldn't give a shit.

As someone who also creates and pays for entertainment, I totally respect your right to do whatever you like with it, and I see no reason why you have to give it away for free to the entire world just because the internet exists and is full of hippies.

btw, MTV Baltic sucks ASS, you really fucked that one up didn't you. I hope you lose all your money and stop making programs entirely.

Sincerely,

MINK

By looris

looris (http://www.videosift.com/member/looris) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:20:08 -0800

MTV Baltic? Wtf? I thought the three languages were different enough, aren't they?
Or it exists but broadcasts localized in each country?

By MINK

MINK (http://www.videosift.com/member/MINK) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:38:48 -0800

^if you call translating the words "pimp my ride" 3 times "localisation" then yes.

By looris

looris (http://www.videosift.com/member/looris) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:03:31 -0800

lal!

By rickegee

rickegee (http://www.videosift.com/member/rickegee) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:28:42 -0800

I find this little piece of comic protectionism to be both quaint and justified. If we export all of our comedy along with all of our bad Bruce Willis action films, then who will ever visit the great America again? Aussies need incentives, too.

On a less cheeky note, I wonder how much of this is tied up in the entertainment writers' strike that is taking place right now? If comedy writers accrue benefits in the form of residuals, there could indeed be a very serious consequence to freely streaming all of their (quasi-intellectual) property so that your random dot.ru can zip it and burn it onto pirated CDs and DVDs.

I do like the message, but there is more going on here than simple isolationism, I fear.

By MINK

MINK (http://www.videosift.com/member/MINK) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:08:11 -0800

I’m sure you have very good reasons for taking this action- exclusive distribution deals with overseas TV networks, advertisements not meant to be globally broadcast etc.
...
Of course, you own the content, and who are we to tell you how it should be distributed? Comedy Central has no obligation to send a political message to the rest of the world.

foot. self. shot in.

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:27:37 -0800

Bummer. Only 60 votes on Digg. It did NOT get popular to front page.

By MINK

MINK (http://www.videosift.com/member/MINK) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:51:39 -0800

...waits for the Dear Leader to respond...

By Eklek

Eklek (http://eklek.videosift.com) — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:58:44 -0800

If only CC clips were CC (creative commons) licenced..

By MINK

MINK (http://www.videosift.com/member/MINK) — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:04:37 -0800

^how would that make a difference? which cc license are you talking about?

where's dag gone?

By 9604

9604 (http://www.videosift.com/member/9604) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:16:48 -0800

To the producers of Comedy Central:What I am about to say is not a comment but a reccomendation. Through the years of 1988-1994(im guessing),there was a hit t.v. series called Kids in the Hall.I reccomend that you put it back on your network because if you do,then more people will probably watch your network more often.Do me a favor and just think about it.If you do put the show back on, I am sure that I would watch Comedy Central more than I do now and I will talk friends also into watching your network.

By fizziks

fizziks (http://www.videosift.com/member/fizziks) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:54:36 -0800

perhaps the instructions for getting embed codes should be updated to link to this page. It still has instructions on getting CC embed codes:

http://www.videosift.com/video_hosts.php

By MycroftHomlz

MycroftHomlz (http://www.videosift.com/member/MycroftHomlz) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:01:35 -0800

Opps...I didn't know this. I missed this discussion. Should I kill my newly sifted CC embeds?

By jwray

jwray (http://jwray.videosift.com) — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:50:58 -0700

Mind putting the Comedy Central ban in the FAQ?