Viacom will be offering every minute of video from Comedy’s Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” on a new site launching today. The site will allow users to search for shows by a specific date or topic, which was accomplished by a Comedy Central team going back and manually tagging all of the shows that have aired since its 1999 debut.
Meanwhile, Viacom remains firm on its plans to sue YouTube parent company Google for $1 billion for alleged copyright infringement, despite the new filtering technology the site has recently added. Viacom spokesman Jeremy Zweig is quoted as saying, "the new technology obviously has no bearing on the past."
Viacom claims that there were more than 100,000 copyright videos on YouTube at one time, many of which likely included clips from The Daily Show.