MTV Launches New Music Site, Censors Music

October 31, 2008 - 12:06 pm By COED Staff

MTV has hit the nail on the head with their new music video website launched earlier this week.

Think of MTVmusic.com as Hulu for music videos – currently offering thousands of embeddable music videos ranging from Gun’s and Roses’ classics to the newest Rihanna releases, MTV plans on offering the most complete music video archive on the interweb.

The only thing stopping MTVmusic from overtaking YouTube as the go-to music video sharing service is MTV’s inability to play nice on the playground. A perfect example can be found in Weird Al Yankovic’s “Don’t Download This Song.” As pointed out by CrunchGear, MTVmusic bleeped out the names of file sharing sites to deter people from using non-MTV affiliated music services to download music.

As CrunchGear says, “The whole song is a parody of the RIAA, the video shows a kid getting shot by police for downloading music, and it suggests you’ll burn in hell for file-sharing so you’d assume that MTV would be in on the joke. Are these words on some sort of internal watch list?”

At any rate, MTVmusic.com is still a pretty kick-a** site and if you are really deadset on watching the video in its uncensored entirety, YouTube has it here.

Taylor says:

October 31, 2008 at 12:56 pm

Hey neighbors,

I figured I’d check out what you guys work on down the hall and was surprised to see a (most likely coincidental) reference to “Don’t Download This Song” which we produced here, at Bill Plympton’s studio, down the hall from you at 1005. Weird how life works like that sometimes.

Take it easy,
-Taylor