YouTube and CBS have partnered to launch the CBS channel on YouTube.  Currently, the CBS content on offer is comprised of clips from shows rather than full-length episodes.   The first clips on the CBS channel are the Late Show With David Letterman, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, CSI: Miami and CBS News First Look With Katie Couric.

The Lettermen clip quickly soared to the forth most viewed video clip at YouTube.   In the near future CBS plans to add clips from   CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: NY, Survivor, Jericho, Numbers, CBS News, The Early Show, CBS Sports, and more.

Most of this content has long been on YouTube illegally, so this is just CBS replacing pirated content with legal clips.  I wonder if the founders of YouTube had this planned from the very start?   Create a huge site based primarily on stolen content.  Make it so big and popular that content owners feel that it is better to just give in and post their content instead of suing YouTube’s pants off.

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  1. bsuy wrote on 05. Apr 2007

    CBS channel is not clear.

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