In a video premiering last night, the Daily Show’s Demetri Martin discusses the Viacom v. YouTube suit.

This is especially great as Comedy Central is a Viacom channel, but Jon Stewart pretty much comes out and says that everyone wins when YouTube clips are uploaded.

BTW, I’m happy to link to the video on the official Comedy Central website, except for one nontrivial detail: This official video will expire in a month. Have these people never heard about link rot, or do they just not care? The Daily Show is not something that does well in reruns, and it’s not like Viacom is going to release a 15 terabyte Daily Show compendium. So really, they’re just trying to delete their own history.

UPDATE: Almost forgot to credit PaidContent.org for the link. They might be on the other side of the rhetorical fence (one commenter goes so far as to call Lessig a commie), but I give link love where it’s due.

UPDATE 2: In a move unintentionally hightlighting the perils of attempting to block all unauthorized uploads, Microsoft has closed its video site, Soapbox, for up to two months while it designs a system to block infringing content.