The [[music video]], animated by [[Bill Plympton]], premiered August 22, 2006 on [[Yahoo! Music]]. It depicts the vision of the capture, trial, imprisonment, attempted [[execution]], escape, and burning of a young boy who burns a CD on his computer.<ref name="Yahoo! Music">http://music.yahoo.com/premieres</ref> The boy's death, where he stands on top of a tower just before it explodes, parodies the film ''[[White Heat]]'', where [[Cody Jarrett]], played by [[James Cagney]], dies in a similar fashion. But at the end, it turns out the boy is just imagining what would happen if he downloaded the song, and goes back to playing his guitar. As he continues his arrest, the video quality decreases from color to grayscale to dark grayscale to yellowed. The style of drawing is similar to that of [[Schoolhouse Rock]] videos.
==Notes==
*The first verse of the song mentions the [[file sharing]] [[File-sharing program|applications]] (incorrectly referred to as "sites" or web-sites) [[Morpheus (computer program)|Morpheus]], [[Grokster]], [[Limewire]], and [[KaZaA]]. On [[Music Choice]] OnDemand, these applications are censored from the music video.
*Yankovic credits the proliferation of music over the internet and sites such as [[MySpace]] and [[YouTube]] with helping to popularize his album ''[[Straight Outta Lynwood]]'' onto the [[Billboard 200|Top 10 Charts]].<ref name="Ref4">http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/23/music.yankovic.reut/index.html</ref>
*Yankovic has previously stated that "his real beef with P2P sites" has more to do with [["Weird Al" Yankovic#Misattribution and imitators|misattribution]] than with money.
*This is one of the few Yankovic songs to contain any profanity (albeit, mild). As the song is fading out, one of the lines spoken is "You cheap bastard!". The other use of profanity in the song is "Don't Download This Song Or you'll burn in [[Hell]] before too long."
