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This has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever read:
From Yankovic.org:
File Sharing is a Four-Letter Word
Apparently, MTVs new music video site doesnt take too kindly to the mention of file sharing sites like Morpheus or Grokster or Limewire or KaZaA. Any mention of such sites immediately gets bleeped out in the video. Thus making Als Dont Download This Song from the Straight Outta Lynwood album sounding more profane than Bob Saget and Chris Rock combined at least within the first minute.
Al's the one who put the loud, obnoxious bleeps in.
From today's New York Times
In an e-mail message on Sunday, Mr. Yankovic wrote that he had bleeped out the names to the file-sharing sites in his song two years ago, after MTV told me that they would refuse to air my video otherwise. Instead of subtly removing or obscuring the words in the track, he wrote, I made the creative decision to bleep them out as obnoxiously as possible, so that there would be no mistake I was being censored.