In the latest example of “corporations can’t let us have nice things,” Paramount Global has removed 25 years’ worth of content from the website of Comedy Central. The move comes after the media conglomerateFor decades, the Comedy Central website has played host to network classics. In the heydays of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, users could flock there to catch up on segments they might have missed, ones, as Paramount must have forgotten, that drove the political and cultural conversations.
As always, the corporation tried to sell destruction as a win for consumers. “As part of broader website changes across Paramount, we have introduced more streamlined versions of our sites, driving fans to Paramount+ to watch their favorite shows,” the companyfor example, are now all but gone, relegated only to YouTube and the whims of fans .
Paramount’s decision is somewhat surprising given the upward trend of classic comedy clips posted online. Official channels for classic programs likemaintains an active archive of segment clips from recent years. YouTube, of course, is far from perfect , but it is a better alternative than Paramount’s sabotage.
The move also comes amidst a broader corporate trend to restrict fair use and tighten their grips on copyrighted material. See, for example, the lawsuit in the United States,for their practice of digitally lending books. Thus far, more than 500,000 books are now unborrowable as Internet Archive appeals the decision. It’s all the same shit. Here’s hoping folks like Stewart, Colbert, andWill DiGravio is a Brooklyn-based critic and researcher, who first contributed to Paste in 2022.
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