Comments on: Don’t Download This Song

By: josh

josh — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:30:46 +0000

IHATE it

By: Schwa-Schwa

Schwa-Schwa — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:25:34 +0000

Also, if you’re a visual artist and you sell a painting, you don’t get a royalty for it. Not even if you sell it to a major art gallery and thousands of people view it. Why should painters be paid differently to musicians & novelists? Answers on the back of a postcard of the Mona Lisa to the RIAA, please!

By: Whiplash

Whiplash — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:06:24 +0000

The artist or musicians don’t get paid anything except for touring anymore anyway. They don’t get a real return on their music unless they go under an anti-DRM type record company like http://www.maganatune.com

“I liked it a lot, although was it tongue-in-cheek?

As a guy who has made his entire career selling intellectual property I dislike the implication that we are all rich bastards with multiple gold Hummers.

Most of us make a modest to good living, nothing more. I pay for the games and music (and books) that I like. As I tell my kids I pay for them so the artists are encouraged to make more. ”

Ah the musicians get free stuff too of the Internet. They don’t need that much money. As a matter of fact most musicans aren’t making that much at all because of IP dispute costs. The entire scene has been a nightmare since it was incepted really. It has to be rthunk from the start.

You made money off of IP but were you a musician or artist???

This song is amazing and not really a parody like critter42 says.

I will purcahse and share Al’s stuff from a non-DRM site like http://www.emusic.com or mp3tunes.com

I love you AL!

By: bonnie-ann black

bonnie-ann black — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:29:42 +0000

no one rips off artists and creative types more than the agents, distributors and promoters who get their huge cuts… most artists/singers/songwriters — writers — see less than 5% return on their heart’s blood.

By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad

Tom Grey - Liberty Dad — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:22:11 +0000

I’m sorry — “Eat it” rocks.

I don’t believe using force to support innovation is sufficient justification for using force against peaceful, honest people.

Sharing and copying is not stealing, any more than WalMart “steals” customers from the mom & pop stores that go out of business.

Creative people may need a new business model for making cash … hm, release stuff for free (with ads on the site), become famous, sell tickets for live work.

Worked for Mozart, didn’t it?

By: Matt McIrvin

Matt McIrvin — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:11:58 +0000

Weird Al’s “style parodies” are usually a lot funnier than his parodic versions of specific pop songs. I think it’s because the style parodies, since they’re more wholly his own creation, get more creative attention.

By: Lars

Lars — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:46:00 +0000

It’s nice to see some animation that’s hand drawn, when just about every animated series I watch on tv is done with computer programs.

By: Josh Jasper

Josh Jasper — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:43:42 +0000

D’oh again. I cannot brain today. I have the stupid.

By: Dave Klecha

Dave Klecha — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:22:54 +0000

Josh Jasper:

Actually, Mike Judge was responsible for Milton, the SNL-based genesis for “Office Space.” The same Mike Judge who came up with Beavis & Butthead, Daria, and King of the Hill.

Seems no one can figure out what Plympton is known for…

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:51:13 +0000

Wow, yeah, that was the first Weird Al song I’ve laughed at in a while too. I liked the blend of the song with that animation. Highly amusing. And the scratchy quality of the animation made it fun too, even if as some say above it seemed incomplete. Maybe that’s part of the point to it. And huh, I had no idea about it being a style parody. The things you learn from reading comments. :)