Search for "Colbert Report" at Google-owned YouTube, and clicking on the individual videos results in a bold red message: "This video has been removed due to copyright infringement." That"s because, as San Francisco Chronicle writes:
YouTube ... has begun removing more than 100,000 unauthorized clips belonging to Viacom -- everything from snippets of Jon Stewart"s "The Daily Show" to Nickelodeon"s "SpongeBob SquarePants."
The purge comes after Viacom demanded that YouTube take down the material, accusing the site of violating its copyrights. Viacom s ...
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