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(Date Posted:02/18/2007 04:13:51)
I was curious about something Dot was pissed about.....& While trying to find out why a favorite vid was hooked off youtube yet again...I found this.... (didn't know which thread to post on)NO MORE 'DAILY' YOUTUBECOLBERT OFF VIDEO SITE TOOOctober 30, 2006 -- THOUSANDS ofvideo clips from Jon Stew art's "Daily Show" and Stephen Colbert's "Colbert Report" were yanked off the popular YouTube website over the weekend.Apparently, a copyright claim from Comedy Cental, the cable channel that airs the two news spoof shows, forced YouTube to take down what may be the most heavily watched videos on the site.Clips too from "SouthPark" - another Comedy Central show -were gone.Instead, when people clicked on links for those clips, they got a stark message: "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation."Users of YouTube who had posted Comedy Central clips in the past said they received emails late Friday from the site informing them that, if they did it again, it would "result in the deletion of your account."YouTube - a year-old web site that offers video clips of homemade films but also is the go-to site for countless snippets taken from commerical TV - has had copyright trouble in the past. But this appears to be the largest purge to date at the site.From the beginning, TV companies - including Comedy Central - looked the other way when their stuff showed up on YouTube. Many saw it as promotion for their shows. "Getting it off the Internet is no different than getting it off TV," Stewart told an interveiwer recently.What changed?YouTube's acquisition last month by Internet giant Google for $1.6 million, it seems.With TV networks losing more audience and advertisers each day to the Internet, they are less willing to let it pass now that Google is behind the site.Comedy Central officials could not be reached yesterday because of the weekend.http://www.nypost.com/seven/10302006/tv/no_more_daily_youtube_tv_.htmI guess if you are surfing the net...you are also watching TV....I'm sure a fair amount of what is left on youtube is from mainstream TV? *shrugs*
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In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince people that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy person living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, woman(man) is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.
-- George H Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God
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