colbert report

Colbert Takes On SOPA

Techdirt  Fri, 12/02/2011 - 12:16

By the way, I wanted to embed the clips of Colbert's show in this post -- as is clearly allowed by the site.

But because Viacom is crazy, they appear to set the embeds to autoplay as soon as you load up the page.

And that's freaking annoying. I tried to find hidden variables to stop the autoplay... and nothing worked.

So, sorry, no embeds. Meanwhile, Colbert: please, please, turn off autoplay, or at least make it an option.


 

Mainstream News Article Talks Up The Importance Of Fair Use

Techdirt  Tue, 09/27/2011 - 07:20

jupiterkansas was the first of a few of you to send over this article about a Kansas City Star article praising fair use and talking up how important it is to culture.

Watch tonight’s “Daily Show” and count the number of TV, movie and music clips you see or hear during the episode.

Ten? Twenty?


 

Stephen Colbert Challenges The Huffington Post [VIDEO]

Mashable!  Thu, 02/17/2011 - 07:46

Stephen Colbert has weighed in with his take on the AOL-Huffington Post takeover, a barbed criticism of the latter’s content appropriation practices.


 

Colbert Helps Save World From Polka Pirates

Techdirt  Wed, 07/28/2010 - 21:09

A few of you have sent in the fact that the Colbert Report recently did a fun segment about a guy arrested for selling polka DVDs:


 

Not Satire: The Onion Gets a TV Deal With Comedy Central

Mashable!  Fri, 11/06/2009 - 15:16

America’s most trusted satire newspaper and website, The Onion, has been steadily moving into online video in the past few years (with many hilarious pokes at