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Who knew that the names of nearly obsolete file-sharing services were considered dirty words by the bigwigs at MTV? Well, "Weird Al" Yankovic does now, thanks to the version of his Bill Plympton-penned video for "Don't Download This Song" that's on MTV's new video-only site MTVMusic.com having the words "Morpheus," "Grokster," "Limewire," and "KaZaA" dropped out of its lyrics. The bigger insult? MTV's online standards and practices department didn't even go the "dropping the vocal track when the offending words hit" route that has turned so many other pop songs into stutterfests—they actually stick in answering-machine-quality BEEPs, so you know something's being blocked from sensitive ears. I think this might be the first time that's ever happened to the stringently PG-rated Yankovic. Yay, Internet? [TechDirt via Artists Paid]

EMI has already been accused of acting shadily when it comes to the back catalog of recent defectors Radiohead, putting out a big expensive box set of the band's older material—without the consent of Thom & Co.—right around the release date for In Rainbows' discbox. And as it turns out, those questionable business practices have extended to EMI's Google AdWords inventory; after the jump, a screengrab (via the Guardian) of the EMI-purchased sponsored results that came up when you Googled "Radiohead" last week: More »