Viacom's sneaky little bastards?

Over at Valley Wag Nick Denton posts what he calls an exclusive which attempts to uncover the sneaky doings of Viacom bloggers who allegedly try to cover their tracks when using Youtube video clips. The bloggers at Comedy Central, one of several cable networks owned by Viacom, exploit a service called Scenemaker, which lets users tag and cut online video; once copied over, the video shows up as hosted at scenemaker.com, rather than youtube.com; and the Youtube logo is stripped off. (Thanks to Valleywag commenter, kavalier, for spotting this.) The Comedy Central Insider site started using Scenemaker immediately after the parent company accused Google of building a video business on copyright piracy, suggesting a deliberate effort to cover up the conglomerate's hypocrisy How Viacom's video pirates cover their tracks [VW]