YouTube allows Comedy Central clips

Culver City (CA) - YouTube, the massive video sharing website, is allowing users to post up clips from Comedy Central shows. Last week, YouTube pulled thousands of Comedy Central videos after Viacom, Comedy Central's parent, complained about copyright violations.

Viacom and YouTube are apparently in talks to legally share the videos and for the mean time are allowing Comedy Central videos to be posted. Most of the videos were from popular shows like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report.

The shows have become a cultural phenomenon and many fans were upset after the videos were pulled. One guy posted up a short video titled, "Why did Comedy Central assert copyrights now?" and questioned why Comedy Central had waited so long to pull the videos.

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Humphrey Cheung was a senior editor at Tom's Hardware, covering a range of topics on computing and consumer electronics. You can find more of his work in many major publications, including CNN and FOX, to name a few.