AT&T’s Blue Room Has Its Own Standards Of “Working Blue”
The bleeping was initially noticed by some Pearl Jam fans, who notified the band; Pearl Jam is now leading a search for other artists whose content has been censored by AT&T, although the associated thread is now devolving into an argument over whether or not private companies have the “right” to bleep out whatever content they want to stream. (Presumably the people who are saying “so what man, it was like an awesome concert!!!111!” don’t really listen to Pearl Jam for their lyrics.) For its part, AT&T is casting censorship blame on a “webcast vendor,” and they’re claiming that they’ll have the full, uncensored performance up soon–or at least as soon as they can figure out how to incorporate YouTube footage into their video in a somewhat slick manner.
LOLLAPALOOZA WEBCAST: SPONSORED/CENSORED BY AT&T? [pearljam.com, via Future of Music Coalition Blog]