Pearl Jam censoring a ‘big mistake’
p2pnet news | Freedom:- It was all just a big mistake, says AT&T.
What was?
The censoring of Pearl Jam during a webast sponsored by AT&T.
Yesterday, “When Pearl Jam featured at Chicago’s Lollapalooza webcast on August 4, they replaced the original words to Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall with, ‘George Bush, leave this world alone’ and ‘George Bush find yourself another home,” p2pnet posted.
But, “After concluding our Sunday night show at Lollapalooza, fans informed us that portions of that performance were missing and may have been censored by AT&T,” said the band on its website.
Now, “AT&T, through its Blue Room entertainment site, offered a Webcast of the band’s headlining performance Sunday at the Lollapalooza concert,” says the New York Times. “The event was shown with a brief delay so the company could bleep out excessive profanity or nudity.”
However, the NYT has AT&T spokesman Michael Coe saying it was a mistake and, “the company was working with the vendor that produces the Webcasts to avoid future misunderstandings”.
Coe also says AT&T is, “working to secure the rights to post the entire song – part of a singalong with the audience – 
on the Blue Room site,” adds the story.
Not that incidentally, listen to the Pink Floyd original.
And click the mic on the right to hear David Bannister’s p2pnetcast of this story >>>>
Also See:
p2pnet – Pearl Jam: censored by AT&T, August 9, 2007
New York Times – Censoring of Song Was an Error, AT&T Says, August 10, 2007
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August 10th, 2007 at 8:49 am
It was a big mistake allright.
This is one of the companies, against Net Neutrality, that insists that Net
Neutrality is not necessary, since they would NEVER resort to political
censorship. they ‘promise’ they would never do such a thing
The mistake was getting caught too soon.
August 10th, 2007 at 9:01 am
From this article ….
http://web20.telecomtv.com/pages/?newsid=41694&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
“Remember that only this March, the then in-post and now newly-retired CEO of AT&T, the self-styled “John Wayne of Telecoms”, Ed Whitacre, said, in public and on the record, that concerns the telco or other big carriers might decide to block traffic that someone within the organisation doesn’t like, “are overblown and will not happen”.
Yeah, right. That was five months ago. “