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BetaNews | Viacom to Promote YouTube-like Features on Sites
Viacom is wasting no time in moving on from dealing with YouTube, as the company is planning to aggressively promote new functionality on ComedyCentral.com in the coming months, and others in the future.

Functionality will be provided directly from the site itself that allows users to embed and share videos much like the popular social video site. Users will be permitted to show the video for a period of one month after it is posted.

Big media sites are starting to buckle-down and demand their content be taken off of YouTube because they’ve seen just how lucrative it can be. I know that in the last month, most of the clips I tagged as favorites on YouTube have been taken off, making that site nearly useless for me. I don’t really care about user generated content — I want to see professional content in bursts. There are a few scenes in every show that you’d like to see again… too bad you couldn’t tag scenes with keywords so you could jump straight to that section, (maybe you can someplace and I just don’t know about it).