Entire Daily Show archive goes online

Viacom has announced that it's going to post the entire eight-year Daily Show archive, with advertising, to the web, and include with it a bunch of community and mash-up features. This is great news — but can Viacom deliver a service that's 0.25% as good as YouTube (whom they're suing for $1 billion)? Given that, as of this moment, I can't get the Viacom site to serve me any video, the signs are not hopeful.

Viacom's decision to post its entire archive–while fighting YouTube in the courts–sets the scene for a battle between the established media players and their high profile entertainment brands against the user generated content sites, most notable YouTube.

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