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The moment I read this I thought that they must have heard this song and said to themselves, "You know, this guy's got a great point here!" http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/

Agreed!
Don't download this song either!

1) only consort with criminals; and/or

2) have confused video stores for houses; and/or

3) just make stuff up as you go.

So after all of those Internet hackers have been destroying musicians' careers with their file sharing, and leaking videos, and other piratical nonsense...

You make something people want, and it SELLS.

Don't forget that Straight Outta Lynwood includes the song "Don't Download This Song", which may be downloaded from dontdownloadthissong.com. Brilliant.

Weird Al, too.

Based on your comments, it almost sounds like you already heard the first single from the album which was released weeks ago

File Share'ers are the REAL evil villans!

For those of us whose mimetypes are set to play mp3s, the high quality song's URL is http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/DDTS.mp3.

Does anyone know some email addresses for the RIAA lawyers? I'd love to send it to them.

So that no one has to suffer again link.

Running Safari was able to download the song from MySpace but not from the e-card "Download this song" flash link because it insisted on playing the song instead of downloading it. Since it was flash based, there was no option for downloading linked file... so I couldn't download the song.

Here is the direct link by the way:

http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/tracks/DDTS.mp 3

Is this supposed to be parody or what? Should someone take this and make a "Don't Restrict Our Rights" version of this?

Thank you. Would it have been so hard for him to just link to that file to begin with? Sheesh.

Though now that I've listened to it, I find that this enterprise was pretty much a waste of time. That wasn't very good, was it?

For the record, I don't have a flash blocker.

(I also don't have flash installed)

Stupid safari wouldn't let me save the mp3... I wonder what I'm doing wrong?

Oh well.

curl -O http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/tracks/DDTS.mp 3
mv DDTS.mp3 ~/Music

For those without flash: http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/tracks/DDTS.mp 3

Try turning off your flashblocker -- it's played as a flash file, with the actual mp3 being available at http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/tracks/DDTS.mp 3

Tried that, but http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/DDTSecard.html leads to a totally black screen.

Next time you try to release something on the internet, Al, just post a direct link to the fucking file.

Took me a few minutes to find it, but just go here:

http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/

It's worth noting that it's also better to download the song from http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/, as opposed to the MySpace linked to in the summary (where the MP3 is 96kbps/22khz, as opposed to 160kbps/44khz).

Don't download this song
Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong

Cause you start off stealing songs
Then you're robbing liquor stores
And selling crack and running over school kids with your car!