If you try to go to the YouTube link Steph posted, you now get this message:

This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner Cable News Network LP, LLLP because its content was used without permission

interesante.

I wonder how the copyright enforcement will work out now that Google has bought Youtube. I seem to recall reading that some content producers were allowing their stuff to be put up, on purposee.

Speaking of content, I have now watched online TV from CBS, ABC, Fox, and NBC. CBS totally wins. Even though their player doesn't always initialise right on my system, when it does, there's a fullscreen option. And now that they don't show the same ad all the way through, less eye-stabby. Fox sucks, because I can't watch it on my Mac, and on the PC it's less than pretty. ABC is second, quality-wise, though it did seem like there were a lot of ads--but they win for ad content, since they only make you watch 30s of each one (which I didn't realise the first time in), and all the ads other than the first one seemed to be interactive. Way to take advantage of the medium. NBC was just okay.

I'm totally fine with watching The Unit on the web. No issues at all. For ABC and NBC I'd just watch what I missed, not intend to watch it that way from the start. Stuff from Fox? I'd rather torrent, if I need to see it. But the other three networks have kinda taken that need away from me, and now that BBCA does On Demand, that's lessened too.

Good work, guys!

Snerk. On Harold's TC blog, he talks about "getting the shakes" when they went walking over to the vending machines for last night's Quickfire. He said he flashed back to shopping at the convenience store last season.

Stations putting their content online makes it much more likely that I'll watch their shows now. Good to know which ones are best - thanks, ita!

Vibing for Dana. Well, it's 3pm my time.

If you try to go to the YouTub link Steph posted, you now get this message:

This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner Cable News Network LP, LLLP because its content was used without permission

The blog where I first read about the Bill Maher thing says that the dude who posted the video clip on YouTube got a C&D letter, but that he's going to re-post a 10-second clip b/c 10 seconds is within the boundaries of fair use.

OMG crazy boss, if you're so worried about seeing everything, you really could have checked your email while you were out sick for two days!

I wonder how the copyright enforcement will work out now that Google has bought Youtube. I seem to recall reading that some content producers were allowing their stuff to be put up, on purposee.

There was a bit on this on Slate, last week. The idea is, since copyright stays in existence whether you enforce it or not (unlike trademark), an owner can basically ignore copyright infringement for days or weeks or years, and then suddenly change her mind and enforce.

While the ignoring is going on, the owner gets the benefit of free advertising.

(YouTube isn't responsible for the content posted on it, and is responsible for policing only to a limited extent. It's really up to the copyright owner to police her property. Thanks to lobbying by AOL, a decade ago, that got enshrined into law.)

It's official. Democrats control both houses of Congress.

Don't frak it up. The next time it may not be fixable.