FLIRTing with the Crowds

Ok, so the original ‘piracy is a crime’ video is a prime example of advertising made by old people trying to tell young people what’s cool and what’s not - which is bound to fail. The spoof is a lot better, but it’s the individual recording artists that are the most creative of the lot:

“The Norwegian party Venstre (socialist liberal) has proposed that all illegal file sharing should be legalized. They haven’t put much thought behind the populist proposal and the rationale is basically that since the music is there people should be allowed to consume it freely…

So, in response to this the Norwegian metal band ENSLAVED took a cab out to the Venstre party leader’s farm (he happens to be a sheep farmer) and “downloaded a sheep” with the same kind of motivation: free roaming sheep are available and should be consumed! The sheep was then brought back to the Norwegian parliament, quite an effective statement.”

Luckily, all my Enslaved albums are legal…