Chocolate Rain Anniversary Album

\\r\\n\\r\\nCan you believe it\\\’s been a year since Tay Zonday\\\’s Chocolate Rain hit YouTube? Thanks to its Creative Commons licensing, the thing\\\’s picked up a truckload of remixes since. Twenty million views and an ad tie-up later, Tay\\\’s now selling some of those remixes in the album Chocolate Rain: Benefit Power.\\r\\n\\r\\nHalf the money in the first thirty days goes to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which spends a lot of time defending online video publishers against legal harassment from offline media. The album is distributed by Amie Street, which recently hit it big with the girl in the Spitzer sex scandal.\\r\\n\\r\\nToo bad my personal favorite, the Chocobeatz Remix, didn\\\’t make the cut. It\\\’s exactly that abundance of fan remixes, enabled by Tay himself, which keeps us listening to this quirky song one year later. Had Tay been a copyright troll like Prince, Chocolate Rain would probably have dried up by now.