who cares if it stops, they took all my Patrice shows away, everything sucks now. seriously, i listened to them everyday and now i am just lost.

It's cold out here.

well go inside, they got coffee in there

me too, I was on my 3rd pass of the patrice archive.

I think the uploader took them down before shit got crazy. I think theyll be back up soon. Sucks that all the views and comments are gone though, really dumb move on Sirius's part.

Well, it makes sense. I mean, why would you want people to listen to your radio station? They should take down the satellites too and then no one can listen. Boom! Problem solved.

Anyone have a clip of this? HAHA JK :(

I was one of the bastards that found them by listening to Youtube videos. I was searching for Louis CK, and found them.

This exact scenario was my downfall too.

Wait what is this? Louie CK and a couple of losers just sitting around and talking shit? The rest is history.

I know for a fact that they've earned quite a few fans here in Sweden because of the youtube videos. Sweden sucks, but whatever.

We don't suck! Yeah I did the old louie-luckylouie.norton-oa-+babybird and I was hooked.. Thank you the fucking internet..Thank you illegal copy dudes who upload stuff for free, you showed me louis c.k and Opie and anthony, THANKS!

I said the same thing on another thread. I wonder how many listeners, legal or illegal, Louis CK brought to O&A?

same here, without youtube i would have never listened to O&A, and without them i would have never have known about Patrice or lil Jimmy. I had heard of them both before, but had no idea how hilarious they are.

I did not even know O&A existed before checking out their Patrice shows on youtube. Look how fucking grateful Sirius is that fans on youtube gave them a new customer. This shit is despicable.

Sadly, Opie can't stop the material from being removed.

It always felt to me that formerly Opie and Anthony were allowing the shows to remain despite it technically being illegal.

They're smart enough to know that the YouTube clips help their business and fans.

People make fun of Opie, but he really does know how the game works. I guarantee you he knows how important the youtube clips are to them. It's a hell of a marketing scheme, especially since XM doesn't do shit for them.

love the opster

Opie's always been a huge supporter of people that provide the show 'in other ways' and mentioned it several times throughout the years. OnA were both big supporters of Syndication Underground (pre-XM) with their file sharing and streaming of shows.

How O&A Youtube clips have affected me:

• First listened to an O&A John Sterling bit on Youtube when I was in high school, 2009
• Listened to shit load of O&A on YouTube for the rest of my senior year, 2009
• Got my dad to subscribe to XM because I told him that the "the classic rock stations are really good" even though I just wanted to listen to full O&A shows.
• Dad has paid for XM for the last four years and loves it, I get to listen to my O&A (even though I download it now because I like having it on demand for my iPod)
• I share O&A clips to all my friends and we all have a good laugh and spread the virus and their parents subscribe too!!

See how this shit works?? All this happened because of something that's supposedly illegal. It's amazing how lawyers and management simply never understand changing business models when it's happening right in front of them and they're still PROFITING off it! Look at the retards at Kodak who developed the digital camera technology but refused to promote it because it took away from their print developing infrastructure. Yuck!

The war on drugs will take the older generations last grip of influence to fade away which could be in about 2-3yrs but most likely around 5-6yrs to factor in presidential changes.

Media companies are highly entrenched so I'd expect around 5-6yrs before they finally fully support how the internet works... or just die off. But could take around 7-8yrs or more since they own copyrights forever.

wow man, i dunno. i think you gotta expect both of those things to take far longer. politicians and lawyers are the slowest people ever when it comes to adapting to societal change

I want to thank Opie for standing up for people like me who upload classic bits to youtube. If your reading this Opie your comments are very much appreciated. Im ignoring the takedown request I received, if youtube wants to delete my channel so be it but I wont remove them. Everything is backed up and I think a few of us are going to work on putting together some comprehensive torrent collections.

Just wanna say thanks for providing material for all of us fans, it really is appreciated.

Thank you sir.

I'm gonna be honest with you guys. Last summer I got very sick and had to lay in bed for weeks. It was from that boredom that I discovered the O&A shows. Needless to say it made me really pull through some hard times. Listening to Patrice's stories and take on things made me really think different about the world and our society.. I mostly listened to the full shows and I intended to hear them all. especially Patrice's appearances. But now that they've been taken down I feel this emptiness.. Patrice was a modern day philosopher and removing all his appearances is almost like removing the transcripts of Plato or Socrates IMO.

Heavy shit bro. "Patrice is in heaven right now, speaking to god as an equal". - Colin Quinn

Patrice outranks God in wisdom, not to mention sheer body mass.

I started to listen to opie and anthony because i was looking for mel gibson's rage audio in summer of 2010 and then heard opie patrice and ant discussing one of the clips. I WAS HOOKED! since then i've uploaded a few ona clips including some of my favorite jocktobers. I haven't gotten any DMCA notices but I am pissed. This is such bullshit

These clips are one of the things the lead people to become subscribers.

I wouldn't have any idea who Opie and Anthony are without them. I found the clip of their shows while searching for Louis CK shit. I've had a Sirius XM subscription for two years and counting now...

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No matter how much it does help turn people on to the show, the people in charge will never allow their product to be available for free. They're just too close minded and focused on the money.

It's sad too, everyone loses when management refuses to adapt to emerging technology.

Don't worry, Opie, they didn't take them all down.

Man, my friend just got into OnA a few days ago and only got through about 6 Patrice shows before this garbage happened. Poor little feller.

this may be the saddest thing i have heard all day. my struggle was to find one i didn't know word for word.

It's probably just youtube. The main sites for downloading the show everyday are still up.

It's the old comedian appearances I miss. Louis CK, Patrice O'Neal etc.

Bob Dylan, or more likely the people who work for him, has been having most of his clips removed from YouTube for as long as I can remember. YouTube is actually how I discovered and got hooked on Bob Dylan, too. Just like with o&a. Since then I've bought a lot of his bootlegs, DVD's, etc.

Anyway, the uploaders of Dylan clips now just post them under a different name: "Elston Gunn." I guess it just makes it harder for these suits to find em and remove em.

Seems to be working, as there are a lot of rare clips that have been up for a year+ now. So maybe the o&a uploaders could do a similar thing.

There is no way to buy most of this material. How about Liberty fix that first?

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looks like teds got a takedown request too. sad time's for the O&A community.

Yep, nothing O&A related up there now. I'm gonna need antidepressants soon.

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I don't have anything to contribute to this thread. I'm just super fucking pissed.

There's also the all the very precious Patrice Oneal radio stuff that's at peril.

When I search on YouTube for Patrice O'Neil Opie and Anthony I get a bunch of hits. What'd they take down?

Opie hinted that Sirius won't actually pursue anyone, but I can see why people would still exercise caution. He was really eloquent about his thoughts on the matter. He knows the radio business like no other.

OH NOW I GET IT!

One person was offended by one clip so the lawyers figure they'll get rid of all the clips so that problem doesn't ever arise again.

I first learned about O&A from steve's Louis CK series. Some great memories in those clips. ;_;

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Done! Why are you being downvoted? This might be the best way to get the content back up.

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Had to vote down because you think spelling and grammar is more important than content.

Just wanna say thanks for providing material for all of us fans, it really is appreciated.

Thank you sir.