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Hai friends. Purchasing a mechanical license is how one releases a cover song like this; there are no samples, and no copyright is being breached. I'm paying Deadmau5's publisher for every download and stream the song gets. Mechanical licenses can be purchased for nearly any commercially released song, through the Harry Fox Agency or through much more convenient, web-based company LimeLight.

I'll take this moment to dispel a common myth that not charging for something makes it legal; if you use uncleared samples or have written a cover song and haven't bought a mechanical license, you are technically breaching copyright. The way the Internet and music industry are changing will one day (I hope) allow this type of creativity within the law (in some countries, it is very close to legal). Despite continued efforts, Creative Commons has not been fully adopted into our countries legal system. I encourage any musician who writes cover songs to legally clear them by buying a mechanical license; if not for anything else for peace of mind.

And in respond to Saskrotch's comment about my Bandcamp, you must have overlooked the first two letters of my name ;3