YouTube Begins Defense, Seeks Depositions

eldavojohn writes "YouTube has begun their defense against Viacom by first calling on 30 depositions from people like Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert. While the article mentions that YouTube has not revealed what they hope to gain in these depositions, I think Jon Stewart's opinions will weigh in favor of YouTube. Comedy Central's parent company, Viacom, objects to YouTube's hosting of their content. Comedy Central hosts many Daily Show & Colbert Report clips on its own site, bringing in its own ad revenue."

Is there any doubt?

[Otter]

While the article mentions that YouTube has not revealed what they hope to gain in these depositions...

Probably they're hoping that Colbert will raise his eyebrows and bug his eyes out during his deposition. Then they can put the footage on YouTube and rake in viewership from all the Colbert fans: "Look, while he said that he raised his eyebrows and bugged his eyes out! It's funny because he raised his eyebrows and bugged his eyes out!"

Colbert's Deposition

[prxp]

Colbert's Deposition:

Jugde: Overruled! Let the witness answer the question.
Colbert: Nation, there's no problem about people adoring me on youtube. That's only natural.

I've always wondered how Stephen Colbert would behave in real life.

I swear...

[veganboyjosh]

to tell the truthiness, the whole truthiness, and nothing but the truthiness.

Because they're entertaining

[iabervon]

Obviously, they want Jon Stewart and Stephan Colbert's depositions because it's going to be really funny and make Viacom's position look stupid. Frankly, I'm surprised that more people don't depose Jon Stewart just to get snide commentary that will play well in front of a jury. In this case, it's even relevant so the jury could end up hearing it.

Great idea

[Bombula]

[From the executive offices of Viacom and Comedy Central]

"OK guys, I've got a great idea! There's this company out there on the interwebs called youtube, and they're owned by Google, and they get tens of millions of visitors every day. Now they're willing to host our videos - get this - for free!

So here's my idea: let's put our videos on our own website instead! That way, we can pay for all our own web design, site maintenance and bandwidth, we can make sure that the interests of the advertisers who finance us go unserved thanks to our site getting just a tiny fraction of the traffic youtube gets, AND we can piss the whole world off in the process! How can we lose!?

Re:From the (Wrong) Horse's Mouth

[Rakshasa Taisab]

Yeah, it's thanks to all those those clips on Youtube that i started regularly watching The Colbert Report, which I get from mininova.org.

Stephen Colbert?

[BobNET]

Oh please! No one post this on YouTube! [youtube.com]

Re:From the (Wrong) Horse's Mouth

[Anonymous Coward]

alright, i've seen this enough on slash dot the last few days... where the f^ck are you all getting this free beer?