DataTables Multi Select except on hyperlink click

A non-working example of excluding hyperlinks selecting row

HTML

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.3.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.12/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/select/1.2.0/js/dataTables.select.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.12/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/select/1.2.0/css/select.dataTables.min.css">
<table id="example" class="display" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>Name</th>
                <th>Position</th>
                <th>Office</th>
                <th>Age</th>
                <th>Start date</th>
                <th>Salary</th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
        <tfoot>
            <tr>
                <th>Name</th>
                <th>Position</th>
                <th>Office</th>
                <th>Age</th>
                <th>Start date</th>
                <th>Salary</th>
            </tr>
        </tfoot>
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td>Tiger Nixon</td>
                <td>System Architect</td>
                <td>Edinburgh</td>
                <td>61</td>
                <td>2011/04/25</td>
                <td><a href="#" class="do-nothing">$320,800</a></td>
			</tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Garrett Winters</td>
                <td>Accountant</td>
                <td>Tokyo</td>
                <td>63</td>
                <td>2011/07/25</td>
                <td><a href="#" class="do-nothing">$170,750</a></td>
			</tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Ashton Cox</td>
                <td>Junior Technical Author</td>
                <td>San Francisco</td>
                <td>66</td>
                <td>2009/01/12</td>
                <td><a href="#" class="do-nothing">$86,000</a></td>
			</tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Cedric Kelly</td>
                <td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
               ...

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#example').DataTable( {
        select: {
            style: 'multi',
            selector: 'tr:not(a)'
        }
    });
	
	$('a.do-nothing').on('click', function(e){
		e.preventDefault();
	});
} );