Don't Download This Song

summary

Don't Download This Song features the vision of the capture, trial, imprisonment, attempted execution, escape, and burning of a young boy who burns a CD on his computer. At the end, it turns out the boy is just imagining what would happen if he downloaded the song, and so he throws the CD away and goes back to playing his guitar.

nicknames

Music Anti-Piracy lesson, Military imprisonment for downloading

fx

Color degrading from original color to greyscale with sepia/yellow-ish tone, animated animals, solider shootings and flame effects.

errors

sounds

The song starts out with piano tune and synth tune, then after the solders invade his room, drums, bass and guitars play throughout the video.

soundvariant

When posted to MTV, it censored the file sharing site names with bleeping sounds to prevent people from figuring out what sites to get songs from.^[1]

availability

Extremely rare. Was premiered on Yahoo! Music back in 2006. However, this is still available on MTV and on the artist's YouTube channel.

hassources

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