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In a somewhat related topic to yesterday’s news, ITWorld.com has an in-depth interview with Al on file sharing

Where does Weird Al stand on the file-sharing debate?

“I don’t really take a firm stand on either side of the issue,” he wrote.” It’s a grey area for me, and besides, only a Sith deals in absolutes.”

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He appreciates the positive promotional aspects of P-to-P (peer-to-peer) Web sites. However, Weird Al also feels that people who get their music exclusively from such channels instead of in ways that directly benefit artists “are not taking the moral high road, and I don’t really condone or support that.”

and on his MySpace page:

Weird Al designed and maintains his MySpace page himself. “I’m pretty decent at Photoshop, and I know just enough HTML to be dangerous,” he wrote. “And I did, in fact, personally add every single one of the 47,000+ friends on that site (although I’m sure there’s a bot or something that could have done that just as well).”

and about his previous tech-savvy songs:

“I don’t think we ever heard anything officially from Intel, but eBay was actually thrilled with the parody – their CEO Meg Whitman flew me out to Florida so that I could perform the song at a major eBay corporate function,” he wrote. “If I’d had my wits about me, I probably would have hit them up to finance a music video for the song!”

Ah nuts, we could’ve had an “actual” video for Poodle Hat.  Ah well.