Leave YouTube Alone
By Sarah Carlson
February 28, 2007
I was distracted by our live-blogging extravaganza during the Oscars when Forest Whitaker took to the stage to accept his Best Actor award, so I missed what many are calling the best speech of the night. I figured I'd catch it on YouTube, but I figured wrong: According to Variety, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has requested YouTube take down all videos of the 18-hour awards show.
Want to see the amusing bit by Will Ferrell, Jack Black and John C. Reilly about how comedies are generally overlooked by Oscar? Too bad. You can watch a few clips on Oscar.com, which don't have sketches in their entirety, but those will soon be pulled to" whet people's appetite for next year's show."
Considering an average of 39.9 million viewers tuned in this year, making it the third time in the past six years the show hasn't broken the 40 million mark, isn't having clips from the show available to all a good thing? Wouldn't that whet your appetite? This isn't as annoying Viacom's refusals to allow YouTube users to post clips from shows on stations it owns (including Comedy Central), but it does make me wonder what these media companies are thinking.
Now what are we supposed to watch when we're bored at work? What do you like to watch on YouTube?
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