MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 30, 2008 @11:40AM from the he-probably-kidnapped-himself dept.

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.

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Re:Time for Geroge Carlin to update his routine? by Anonymous Coward · 2008-10-30 12:50 · Score: 0, Redundant

George Carlin is dead, you insensitive clod!
Re:But by Anonymous Coward · 2008-10-30 14:19 · Score: 0, Redundant

heh, i'm surprised mtv still plays music videos at all....