Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show" have been pulled online.
(Credit: Comedy Central)
The programming dispute between DirecTV and Viacom is starting to affect everyone, with Viacom escalating the issue by pulling some of its popular shows from the Internet.
"The Daily Show," "The Colbert Report," and "Jersey Shore" were among the popular shows that are no longer available. Other shows, such as "South Park," remain online and back episodes of some pulled shows can still be found on Hulu.
While arguments over how much a distributor like DirecTV has to pay to an entertainment company like Viacom are increasingly the norm, this fight has hit the public even harder than usual. By pulling shows from the Internet, Viacom risks enraging not only DirecTV's 20 million subscribers, but the rest of the country, most of whom have little stake in either companies.
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