MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video

An anonymous reader writes "We've all heard Weird Al Yankovic's 'Don't Download This Song,' which came out a couple years ago, but did you know that MTV is apparently so afraid that kids listening to the song will discover for the first time that file sharing offerings exist that in its video of the song, MTV bleeps out their names? There's a line in the song that lists out Morpheus, Grokster, Kazaa and Limewire (most of whom don't really exist any more), but for some reason MTV considers those names to be bleep worthy." Unless this is all one grand inside joke from Weird Al.

Comments

But

[ohxten]

But we can watch scantily clad ladies dancing around and gangstas promoting the dirty life?

Re:But

[lysergic.acid]

that makes more sense than the American film ratings board who worry more about kids/teenagers seeing nipples or other parts of the human body (even in non-sexual contexts) or hearing swear words but will still give movies depicting gun violence, murder, etc. PG or PG-13 ratings.

Re:But

[MightyYar]

I'd much rather have my kid playing with titties and ass than 9mm pistols.

Just sayin'.

Re:But

[Toonol]

Yea totally. look at the america/german divide...the amercas fear the body's love making but love the death and murder, whereas germany censors violence and allows all kinds of sex.

In defense of America, sex is much more of a temptation than violence is. 99.9% of kids won't commit murder regardless of what movies they watch, but 99.9% of them will make stupid decisions at some point regarding sex.

Now, I don't agree with the movie ratings in America, I think they're too prudish, and censoring nudity and erotica probably causes more sexual problems than it prevents... but it's not simply that "the america's fear the body's love making". The exposure of youth to sexual imagery can lead to problems when done wrong. Go look at 4chan if you doubt that.

Re:But

[schon]

In defense of America

If you had even an inkling of understanding, you wouldn't characterize it as "defense".

sex is much more of a temptation than violence is. 99.9% of kids won't commit murder regardless of what movies they watch, but 99.9% of them will make stupid decisions at some point regarding sex

And why do you think that is?

Has it not occurred to you that perhaps it's because they're told from an early age that sex is bad and guns are good, and so therefore want to experiment with the taboo?

Youth is all about rebellion. Tell kids that they shouldn't do something is a surefire way to get them to want to do it.

Re:But

[lysergic.acid]

makes sense. that's why the most conservative/repressive cultures are also the most fucked up. i've noticed that extremely repressive Asian cultures like Taiwan and Japan tend to have very polarized populations, where most people are either complete prudes who lead unhealthy, overly sheltered lives devoid of any sort of pleasure, or they lead equally unhealthy lives partying way too much, with absolutely no sense of moderation or self-restraint.

when everything is taboo then there's no difference between having a few drink with your friends and getting completely shitfaced and coked out of your mind. so people end up either being a virgin their entire life, or become extremely promiscuous and have unprotected casual sex with random strangers.

Re:But

[Anonymous Coward]

makes sense. that's why the most conservative/repressive cultures are also the most fucked up. i've noticed that extremely repressive Asian cultures like Taiwan and Japan tend to have very polarized populations, where most people are either complete prudes who lead unhealthy, overly sheltered lives devoid of any sort of pleasure, or they lead equally unhealthy lives partying way too much, with absolutely no sense of moderation or self-restraint.

So, what are you basing your observations from? Most Asians believe Americans will fuck a stranger at the drop of a hat and American Pie is a realistic depiction of what college life is like in the US. Do your jobs mod, I'm at least as insightful as my parent post.

Re:But

[Darby]

To me, sex is way more natural than murder.

Now now, they're equally natural. Just one is moral, ethical and wonderful and one is immoral, unethical and disgusting.

The problem is that there are too many lunatics around who can't figure out which is which.

Re:But

[mcvos]

Hate to tell you, but obama is not the great black hope. He is a white guy in a black man's body.

Seems to me he's a half white/half black guy in a light brown body.

Re:But

[MightyYar]

My daughter will someday have sex. I have accepted this, and you should too. Hopefully she will not get shot.

Re:Good reason to forget MTV

[Wizard Drongo]

Yeah! Let's all go and use YouTube instead.
And whilst we're at it, let's stop using MSN and their associated M$ brands, 'cause they're an evil corporation too.

Let's use Gmail instead.

/ Hope Google aren't evil. Otherwise we're really screwed.

They've got the right idea..

[tomd123]

File sharing should totally be censored... songs about rape, one night stands, drugs, money bitches, hoes, sluts... etc is perfectly fine though.. Thank God for such brilliant minds.

Re:eh?

[Ethanol-fueled]

MTV's bullshit censorship changes with the times. Back in the early-mid '90's, they'd censor the word "ass" and other lame stuff from Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg videos(remember how half the screen was blurred out for some reason or other?).

Now the shit they play could be construed as child porn in some states! It all went downhill for them after they stopped showing the Beavis and Butthead episode where they make a hairspray torch because some dumbass kid copycatted and done burned his house down.

Fuck MTV. I'd rather my kids watch Cinemax.

Bleep MTV

[jimbertling]

What more can I say?

Re:This inflamatory you say?

[clockwise_music]

I would vote for it being a joke by Weird Al. The guy is extremely clever and is very likely to come up with something like this. After all, he did write "Bob".

What about "white n' nerdy"?

[nobodyman]

But doesn't he explicitly mention "MySpace" in White and Nerdy? Does that get bleeped out?

Too late, they realize...

[Chordonblue]

You know, promoting music that encourages people to break the law might also encourage them to download music. After all, those 'rap guys' are always stealing shit, and downloading music isn't exactly breaking into a store and grabbing all the CD's you can before the cops get there, right?

I think the record industry may be figuring out that all that moral ambiguity they promoted in the past is now going to bite them in the ass - big time.

See, to paraphrase the great Reverend Wright... The chickens... Have come home... To ROOST! :)

Re:Too late, they realize...

[iminplaya]

...to paraphrase the great Reverend Wright...

God damn the RIAA!

Re:eh?

[mabhatter654]

yes, Viacom is parent of CBS and MTV. The FCC has been trying to regulate Cable for a while and MTV has been the prime target, they cave on censoring to keep the FCC from actually having grounds to get permission.

Re:MTV Still Has Videos? Drawing the line...

[plasmacutter]

This channel spews so much vulgar garbage and stupidity that I don't even have it programmed on the channel list to prevent it lowering my IQ if I should happen to pause while channel surfing.

I'm just double checking, you were talking about cspan here right?

Re:eh?

[daem0n1x]

There is a music channel for Latin countries called Sol MÃsica. Years ago, when the Lenny Kravitz song "Fly away" was a hit, the clip showed all the time on TV. There was a girl in the clip showing her boobs. In Sol MÃsica we could see the boobies, but on MTV they were blurred.

What's the problem with boobies? Here in Europe, it's not such a big deal. We have statues of naked men and women in every square. You can see full frontal nudes in most European films. It's just naked people. Not that big of a problem. And I like boobies ;-)