Comments on: Viacom punishes Internet to get at DirecTV, yanks Daily Show offline

By: doneliyoc

doneliyoc — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:21:00 +0000

I did the same. Old school free TV. I love it :)

By: doneliyoc

doneliyoc — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:20:00 +0000

Clearwire internet. No cable or dish or directTV or phone company required :)

By: elix

elix — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:56:00 +0000

Viacom and DirecTV, Dish and AMC… what’s next? Content distribution chain catfight!

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

By: Jardine

Jardine — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:04:00 +0000

Better informed by not watching The Daily Show? I find they’re one of the best news sources.

By: Culturedropout

Culturedropout — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 04:07:00 +0000

So am I alone in the feeling that I would not shed a tear if all of the corporate media were to become entangled in their own cables and drown in their own effluvia?

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 04:07:00 +0000

When the Daily Show and Colbert come back from hiatus, I’m sure I’ll find them on Usenet.

Viacom’s strategy encourages piracy. Who woulda thunk it?

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:24:00 +0000

Corporate Overlords are Petty.

Whoddathunkit?

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:18:00 +0000

How do you get your internet? That’s one of the things that’s bugged me about the ‘ditch cable’ thumpers. If the plan is to not give the cable people money…?

By: mccrum

mccrum — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:14:00 +0000

You sounded great by the way. Everyone around me was really impressed. We liked the sonnets, but that ode was “real good too” according to the young lady next to me.

By: Jesse Yules

Jesse Yules — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:18:00 +0000

Kristin, rest easy. The piratebay provides.

By: Mordicai

Mordicai — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:44:00 +0000

The best part about corporate feudalism is that there are no checks & balances on the use of collective punishment! YAY!

By: Mordicai

Mordicai — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:43:00 +0000

I always feel like hating on television is like hating on the Globe because all the jokes are aimed at the groundlings.

By: Eddie Perkins

Eddie Perkins — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:53:00 +0000

I love The Daily Show and Colbert, but honestly, they’re off the air more than they’re on anymore. So, it doesn’t feel like I”m really missing anything.

That said, if they’re punishing me because of DirectTV then Viacom can eat a bowl of dicks. I’ll give up watching all of their shows for good before I help them wage their little war. What a bizarre move…”I know what will be good for business. Let’s piss everybody off!”

By: Shinkuhadoken

Shinkuhadoken — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:05:00 +0000

Time for some Sergeant Hartman paraphrasing!

Viacom: “DirecTV has dishonored itself and dishonored the platoon! I have tried to help it, but I have failed! I have failed because you on the Internet have not helped me! You people have not given DirecTV the proper motivation! So! From now on, whenever DirecTV fucks up, I will not punish it. I will punish all of you! And the way I see it, ladies, you owe me for one Daily Show! Now, get on your faces! “

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:57:00 +0000

I use Adblock. I didn’t even see the X, whatever that is. Dailyshow.com works fine for me.

By: nomad411

nomad411 — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:33:00 +0000

They’re TOO BIG TO FAIL!! They can get a bailout package later ;)

By: Peter Swimm

Peter Swimm — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:30:00 +0000

Yea im pretty sure never. Maybe another author’s shows, the GoT is firmly in the mouth of the machine at this point.

By: morcheeba

morcheeba — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:26:00 +0000

I don’t think I can name by 26 favorite channels. It’s amazing, though, that they were all Viacom channels.

By: PaulDavisTheFirst

PaulDavisTheFirst — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:24:00 +0000

what i would pay (*) for the chance to subscribe to a net-only, ad-free (or VERY limited ad-only) streaming service of the good stuff from cable-land.

alas, these content-creating morons seem intent on tying themselves to the cable-delivery monster, and thus getting dragged down with it. i’m 48 years old. god knows what my kinds generation are going to make of a distribution system that relies on wires and whose funding model seems based on making available 200+ channels of complete dreck just so that people can watch Game Of Thrones, Mad Men, No Reservations or whatever actual material works for them. Cable content makers: get a clue! I don’t give a crap about your cable channel, or my cable provider, or your advertisers, or anything except your *show*. Louis CK gets it, why can’t you? And lets be honest, even the not-really-cable companies get it too (*cough* Verizon *cough*). The future of remote visual non-game entertainment is the same as the future of just about everything else: teh Internets. Get on them, or get out of the way.

(*) ok, not THAT much, but certainly more than the content-providers would get from me via any cable subscription that i would have, were i willing to have such a thing.

By: fenrox

fenrox — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:17:00 +0000

Well, Everyone else missed the x I think.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:14:00 +0000

time-sensitive shows that have little to no value a week after they air.

It airs on the East Coast first. Therefore, I can usually get the torrents for both Daily and Colbert in the West on the same night they air. Or I just watch whatever aired the night before.

If Viacom was smart, they’d simulcast online and just put commercials in it and I’d watch that and their commercials. But, Viacom isn’t smart so they lose money and I still watch the shows on my own terms instead.

By: Petzl

Petzl — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:14:00 +0000

By revoking it from the websites, they greatly reduce audience interaction with the website portal/forums, etc. What a way to shoot themselves in the foot and drive more people to simply downloading it as a torrent, where they’ll have no interaction on viacom’s website.

By: PaulDavisTheFirst

PaulDavisTheFirst — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:13:00 +0000

“never”. you’re sure about that?

By: fenrox

fenrox — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:01:00 +0000

So did anybody notice that they didn’t take down the Daily show in the least? That is an ad that you cant skip, that has a little “x” in the corner once it’s done. The shows are still there and haven’t been blocked or removed at all.

By: llamaspit

llamaspit — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:58:00 +0000

I don’t know whether Viacom is making unreasonable price demands, or whether Direct TV is refusing to pay a fair price. I suspect that both of them are doing just fine no matter which way this works out. I also suspect that the executives at both businesses will continue to enjoy gigantic salaries and bonuses no matter what is resolved.

But speaking as a regular watcher of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, which I consider the most accurate and smartest political commentary on TV, I will be mightily disappointed if they do not return. And all you TV snobs who suggest that TV entertainment is a waste of time should get over yourselves. I seem to remember periods of history when critics sneered at Jane Austin novels for being trivial, at abstract art for being a talentless waste of time, motion pictures for being low brow entertainment for poor people, and internet commentary for being all blather. Some of it is, of course, but still….

By: mccrum

mccrum — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:56:00 +0000

I’m in New York, so I’ll just have to take a rain check.

However, if you read classical literature really loudly facing eastward I’ll be sure to listen real hard at 6PM local.

By: binarymutant

binarymutant — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:50:00 +0000

No because content on the internet is uploaded after the original broadcast

By: binarymutant

binarymutant — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:49:00 +0000

content on the internet is uploaded after the original broadcast

By: Cyran0

Cyran0 — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:44:00 +0000

Fair enough.

I applaud any effort to take back one’s life.

If I may be so bold, I definitely recommend purchasing a DVR.
20 minutes saved of every hour is nothing to sneeze at.

By: Cyran0

Cyran0 — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:41:00 +0000

I hope you can make it to Jones Park in Cedar Rapids by 5 PM, mccrum.
(Careful, watch that speed trap on the 380 H Street exit!)
:P