Weird Al File Sharing Censorship Was To Mock MTV
from the it's-all-explained dept
Last week we broke the story of Weird Al Yankovic’s “Don’t Download This Song” video being bleeped on MTV when the names of file sharing apps were mentioned. The NY Times thankfully got to the bottom of the story after a conversation with Weird Al himself. Apparently, MTV had told him two years ago (when the video was released) that they would not play it on TV without the file sharing names taken out. Yankovic himself added the beeps and tried to make them as extreme as possible to highlight the ridiculousness of it all:
Instead of subtly removing or obscuring the words in the track, I made the creative decision to bleep them out as obnoxiously as possible, so that there would be no mistake I was being censored.
He doesn’t know if the video ever actually aired on TV, so it’s likely no one even saw the bleeped video until MTV launched their online video site. He points out, as we noted, that the uncensored version is available on YouTube, but doesn’t explain why embedding that video is forbidden as well.
Comments on “Weird Al File Sharing Censorship Was To Mock MTV”
Whatever You Like
But has anyone heard his new track?
Keep it up, Al!
Good for him!
Great way to draw attention to stupidity. We need more artists to do this sort of thing.
We need the ghost of George Carlin to come back and do a comedy routine of “Four words you can’t say on MTV”
Way to go Weird Al, keep up the good work!
Music videos?
MTV plays music videos? Since when?
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http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=211443
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mtv … who cares.
No wood, no pecker
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/03/rnc-hits-obama-
for-visit_n_140553.html
Repudiate This
Shame on you, McCain.
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