The (utterly WTF) song Universal doesn't want you to hear

This has to be the biggest WTF experience I've had in a long time. Apparently, Megaupload.com had their DNS servers seized for some time, and has generally been vilified by antipiracy advocates. This is a response by several artists from RIAA member labels.

According to Torrentfreak, Universal filed a copyright claim to have the video taken off Youtube, so I don't know how long it will stay on Vimeo:
http://torrentfreak.com/universal-censors-megaupload-song-gets-branded-a-rogue-label-111210/

The world has become a very weird place.
siftbotsays...

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Saturday, December 10th, 2011 7:01am PST - promote requested by Boise_Lib.

ReverendTedsays...

Uploaded Upvoted just because the more people who see this, the more likely someone will provide an explanation. I...I don't get it. Why would these artists sign on for this?

dystopianfuturetodaysays...

"If you feel a tinge of guilt every time you illegally download one of your favorite artist's songs from a torrent site, you can now breathe a little easier. As it turns out, some of today's biggest stars are big fans of file sharing technology themselves.

In what is the most curious cause célèbre in the benefit single field of late, major artists such as Kanye West, Diddy, Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg and even Kim Kardashian have joined their voices together for a song in support of Megaupload, the file sharing service that moves content in massive blocks across the web.

What's particularly interesting about the song is that those singing on the track are doing so despite the fact that the major label record industry reviles Megaupload for the ease with which its music can be pirated by those using the web service. In fact, UMG, which owns labels to which Diddy, Will.i.am and Kanye are all signed, moved to have the video removed from YouTube, with a back and forth on copyright issues ensuing, TorrentFreak reports."


read the rest here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/10/megaupload-music-video-ka_n_1140737.html?ref=entertainment

antsays...

Wow, I am glad I was able to see this in my hours old visit before the video got pulled! *dead

"Sorry, "Block This" was deleted at 8:48:17 Sat Dec 10, 2011. We have no more information about it on our mainframe or elsewhere."

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=NFS30PZO for the replacement. I doubt MegaVideo would pull it.

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