A little YouTube experiment

I probably won't shut up about this for quite a while, but my latest searching on YouTube produced very little Daily Show clips. Apparently Google, the parent company of YouTube (and Blogger, by the way), is abiding by Viacom's demand to take down clips of content it owns, including The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

For the umpteenth time, it sure is great how corporate America can wreck a very cool Website. I still say that the two sides will eventually reach an agreement, though. There is probably no better way to promote your show today than to allow clips of it to air on YouTube. And again, Google didn't drop a cool bill for YouTube to simply watch its viewership decline to zero because of copyright concerns.

Some will call me crazy, but I'd be willing to pay a small fee to be able to access clips on the site, to avoid worrying that they'll be pulled down after you embed your favorite clips on your Website or blog. Whatever - we'll see how this plays out.

In the meantime, I thought I'd do a little experiment - today I did find a pretty funny Daily Show clip on YouTube - one of the few that were up. It's on the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial (I never tire of complaining how the media continues to always use his ridiculously long name - from now on, I'm referring to him as "ILSL.")

Anyway, here's a Daily Show clip on the trial - it's pretty funny, and not too long. I'm going to post it here, and see how long it stays up. It's 5:15 p.m. on February 10, 2007. The clock is ticking - let's see how long it takes the YouTube police to remove it. Enjoy the clip, while it lasts.