SaysWho? Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 Comedy Central Website Shuttered, Decades of Daily Show and Colbert Report Clips Gone in a Blink TVLINE.COM Comedy Central's website has been shut down by Paramount, meaning clips of 'The Daily Show' and more are suddenly gone. Quote Paramount has effectively shut down its Comedy Central website, TVLine has confirmed. Prior to this week, ComedyCentral.com had been home to a repository of clips that included video from every episode of The Daily Show since 1999 and all of The Colbert Report. Also included in the purge: snippets from and episodes of @midnight, The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore and The Opposition With Jordan Klepper. Quote The site’s shutdown follows that of two other Paramount-owned properties: MTV.com (including its in-depth MTV News archives) and CMT.com. While all of the domains remain active, a pop-up notice on each homepage lets readers know that “while most episodes of [insert channel here] series are no longer available on this website, you can watch [insert channel here] through your TV provider. You can also sign up for Paramount+ to watch many seasons of [insert channel here] shows.” 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 Jfc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShader Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 This is rough but at least we're still getting Coyote V Roadrunner! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 And to think people used to think "historical records from <some post-digital time period>" was always a hokey line in Star Trek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShader Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 7 minutes ago, Jason said: And to think people used to think "historical records from <some post-digital time period>" was always a hokey line in Star Trek. "The internet is forever" while still a good rule to live by... Has not been as infallible a rule as we once thought 20 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoberChef Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Yo for real, this literally JUST happened the other day to the news section of MTV, decades worth of content gone in the blink of an eye *snap* like THAT! MTV News Website Shuttered, Archives Deleted WWW.THEWRAP.COM The MTV News shuttering, which deleted decades of writing and reporting, comes just over a year after Paramount shut the organization down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 This report says you can still see some of it on youtube but only goes back to 2016 Paramount Cuts Nearly All Content on Comedy Central, TV Land, CMT and MTV Websites WWW.HOLLYWOODREPORTER.COM The sites, formerly home to a trove of clips and other related materials, now redirect users to Paramount+. I guess these people are desperate for money, didn't they just get sold to private equity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 There's a great science fiction novel called A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge that deals with humanity expanding into the galaxy only to realize that the speed of light is different the further away from Earth you get. Anyway, one of the characters, as I recall, had their professional as "Digitial Archeologist." Their skill/job was basically going through all digital records to find useful information, but it was made difficult by standards no longer existing, old file types that couldn't be read with their "modern" computers, etc. It makes sense that the further we go into the digital future, the harder it will be to useful find and use anything that was stored online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 51 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: This report says you can still see some of it on youtube but only goes back to 2016 Prior to some time in 2016 Comedy Centra/Viacom/Whoever owned CC at the time was rallying against people uploading clips to YouTube because they wanted people to use their own site and app (which didn't even exist yet) and were constantly and immediately forcing YT to take down any uploads of TDS + Colbert Report clips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 If anyone is interested I found a source that has seasons 4 through 20 (the end of the Stewart OG run). Fair warning: it's 640gb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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