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MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video 395

Posted by timothy 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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Journal Journal: Neat article - includes the placebo effect

Journal by snakeOil
13 Things That Do Not Make Sense http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/18/0135226&tid=160&tid=14 DON'T try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away. This is the placebo effect: somehow, sometimes, a whole lot of nothing can be very powerful. Except it's not quite nothi

Comment Re:NYT Still Has About 1.1 Million Print Subscribe (Score 1) 459

by snakeOil (#11935097) Attached to: The Fate of The Free Newspaper
Have you actually RTFM? It's the eigth paragraph down!

Quote: The New York Times on the Web, which is owned by The New York Times Company, has been considering charging for years and is expected to make an announcement soon about its plans. In January, The Times's Web site had 1.4 million unique daily visitors. Its daily print circulation averaged 1,124,000 in 2004, down from its peak daily circulation of 1,176,000 in 1993.

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