If you’re wondering why your favorite Spongebob SquarePants shows are no longer available online, it all comes down to money.
Full episodes of the cartoon about an energetic and optimist sea sponge with a sick wardrobe, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, and many more of your favorite traditional television programs are offline thanks to a feud between Viacom and DirecTV. Here’s how it all went down.
The constant back and forth is causing some bad publicity for both companies. Not everyone has DirecTV and the severity of Viacom’s response may appear to some to be out of touch with the reality of the situation. By shutting everything down, Viacom sends a message that a feud over “contracts” is more important than the happiness of the vast majority of their internet viewers.
It’s good to see, however, that not everyone has lost their head. In an article from the Washington Post, Courtney Mattison of Vermont tweeted her opinion on the matter. Her response, much like the response of everyone else not intimately involved in the situation, is that the two publicly traded companies are acting like kids. Viacom and DirecTV need to get their act together and hug it out.
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