Dean Gray Tuesday

I'm a huge fan of Green Day, so I was disappointed to learn of the cease-and-desist order that the band's record label, Warner, sent to the creators of the inspired noncommercial, Internet-only mash-up album American Edit.

The result is another Gray Tuesday (after the artists' alias, Dean Gray), this one set for Dec. 13.

Read about it here, and on BoingBoing via Ponderance.

Cory Doctorow nails it:

As I wrote earlier this week, fighting mashups has nothing to do with reducing "piracy." No one who listens to American Edit will shrug her shoulders and say, "Well, heck, now that I've heard that, who needs to buy the Green Day album?" Censoring this art is tantamount to saying, "This music must go because it displeases us."