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MTV Launches Music Video Site

Posted by Soulskill on from the guess-what's-top-rated-right-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MTV Music has just launched a website where they offer over 16,000 music videos — like YouTube, but with fewer notices and DMCA takedowns. They've also set up development tools for third parties to incorporate the content into their own creations. Users creating accounts at the site face other challenges, however, such as the six separate agreements and privacy statements that must be accepted via a single checkbox. Thankfully, at the time of writing the MTV Music website was making this process easier on its Firefox 3 visitors by automatically checking the accept box whenever any agreement is viewed."

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  1. Enjoy it while it lasts by dyingtolive · · Score: 5, Funny

    In about 8 months, they'll have nothing but Real World, and you'll have to go to www.mtvmusic2.com if you want to actually see music videos.

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  2. Does this mean..? by Burning1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean that they can stop wasting our time with those stupid music videos on their TV channel, and get back to their reality TV roots...?

  3. US only by JohnstonDJ · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was thinking this was going to be really cool. If it was of a higher resolution than youtube, and all neatly organized it would be awesome. However It gets major negative points from me, as on the three video files I tried all i got was a "Copyrights prevent us from playing this file outside the U.S." Back to youtube for me.

  4. Re:Is it me, or is the music quality really bad? by Jamu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Luxury. Outside the US it's 0Kbit/sec and we have to add our own noise.

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  5. Re:Proper music goes in the ears... by Spazztastic · · Score: 5, Funny

    MTV have done for music what pork fat has done for cardiac health.

    "MTV is to Music as KFC is to Chicken"
    -Lewis Black

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  6. Censorship by Fireye · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was perusing this yesterday, and came across the Weird Al video "Don't Download This Song". One line in the original song goes:
    o/~ Like Morpheus or Grokster or Limewire or KaZaA o/~

    But the version on the new MTV site goes:
    o/~ Like *beep* or *beep* or *beep* or *beep* o/~

    Does anyone know if it was aired on MTV/VH1 this way, or is this unique to the web version?

    MTV: http://www.mtvmusic.com/video/?id=108884
    Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-grdpKVqg

  7. Re:Which videos? by edmicman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't "Under Pressure" that song Queen ripped off from Vanilla Ice?