"tomorrow night," announced host jon stewart @ beginning of daily show yesterday, "our guest internet."
odd intro came redditor, showed daily show taping yesterday vip passes. knowing have chance ask stewart preshow question, redditor pondered ideas , settled on sopa, hugely controversial stop online piracy act being considered in congress. "the internet sent me ask think of sopa , why haven't mentioned on show," said stewart.
stewart wasn't familiar sopa, asking if related net neutrality, admitted team had been consumed presidential election race recently. promised sopa, , turned 1 of writers when said it. @ show's open, stewart made reference sopa , added, "i have reading catch on."
jeff jarvis, pundit , professor, in audience taping. confirmed preshow story , added, "confidential mr. stewart: problem here [cough] industry, entertainment, trying give power power [sic] blacklist , turn off sites if they’re accused of 'pirating' (their word, not ours) content. changes fundamental architecture of net, giving *government* power , means kill sites , other reasons... please, sir need force of virtue beat down this, evil. on behalf of internet, thank you."
redditor pinning hopes on stewart. "i lost mind when mentioned in intro," noted.
stewart , stephen colbert, own show follows daily show, have become unlikely comedians geeks. colbert, instance, last year picked our hbgary/anonymous coverage lengthy segment targeting hbgary federal ceo aaron barr. "to put in hacker terms," colbert said, "anonymous hornet's nest, , barr said, 'i'm going stick penis in thing.'"
, colbert has covered sopa. in december, had segment on bill in claimed against infringement of copyright "had phrase trademarked , emblazoned on mickey mouse doll." went on host brief debate on subject between band manager danny goldberg , harvard prof jonathan zittrain.
colbert's trademarked phrase, stuck mickey mouse
comedy central/viacom
real views of colbert , stewart regarding online piracy? it's hard say. when visited viacom general counsel michael fricklas @ viacom's time square headquarters few years talk $1 billion lawsuit had initiated against youtube, admitted action wasn't backed of creative types working on viacom's many shows. still, hoped come around after learning more issue. (fricklas wanted no part of suing end users, saying it's "expensive, , it's painful, , feels bullying." consumers "need treated respect," added.)
colbert's segment on sopa seems mock of bill's provisions, in interview, goes on claim video clips of show @ 1 point accounted 25 percent of youtube's traffic. may exaggeration, viacom in fact furious on how many clips of daily show , colbert report appeared on youtube in days. (nbc furious on snl's "lazy sunday" digital short, generated more 7 million streams on youtube; youtube has countered helped rebuild show's popularity.)
google said in court filing viacom execs wanted material stay because made great marketing.
years, viacom continuously , secretly uploaded content youtube, while publicly complaining presence there. hired no fewer 18 different marketing agencies upload content site. deliberately "roughed up" videos make them stolen or leaked. opened youtube accounts using phony email addresses. sent employees kinko's upload clips computers couldn't traced viacom. , in effort promote own shows, matter of company policy viacom routinely left clips shows had been uploaded youtube ordinary users. executives high president of comedy central , head of mtv networks felt "very strongly" clips shows daily show , colbert report should remain on youtube.
given how both stewart , colbert doing, in part rabid support among internet communities reddit, it's inconceivable come out in support of sopa—no matter how many half-muffins corporate parent viacom passes out employees. fascinating know how felt in earlier years, when clips did huge traffic on youtube , hulu didn't yet exist. did @ least part of them feel being ripped off?
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