It was the producers, not Ellen, that allegedly did all this.

I admire Ellen for being so generous and rising up after such a public smack down after coming out, then losing her loony "now straight" girlfriend to a camera man.

I tried watching her show for a while but couldn't relate. All the straight women fawning over their lesbian leader was just to creepy for me.

I have to say that when they do play a song at the beginning of every show, they name the artist, label, and song title throughout her dancing to the music, just like you would see on MTV. They don't even play the full song. Will be interesting to see how this ends up. Just to be clear: taking something without permission is wrong. Piracy is wrong , and illegal.