Clips from programs like South Park and The Daily Show vanished from YouTube when Viacom demanded their removal. You wouldn't know anything has changed based on YouTube's rising traffic.
If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"
-- Google-Wan Kenobi warns Darth Viacom that there is nothing more powerful than the Force of YouTube users.
Viacom decided that YouTube would be a better place if they lost some content. Namely some 100,000 video clips of Viacom content, which they insisted on not seeing on YouTube on February 2nd.
Viacom subsequently popped up with a licensing deal with newcomer Joost, a video sharing site run by the guys who started Skype (and the more notorious Kazaa). Joost's model offers the kind of lockdown that big media companies like Viacom think is essential to their futures.
YouTube didn't step in front of an oncoming truck on the information superhighway. Rather than seeing a dropoff in visitors, the opposite has happened. Hitwise analyst LeeAnn Prescott
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