Because I'm totally out of touch with popular culture, I completely missed DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album, an unauthorized remixing of The Beatles' The White Album and Jay-Zee's The Black Album. As day must follow night, the bootleg release of The Grey Album on the Internet led immediately to the threat of lawsuit against any domain hosting "The Grey Album" MP3 files -- which in turn to led to the massively successful Grey Tuesday protest.

Like I said, I completely missed all this. But I get one hell of a kick out of it. I think the whole idea, from start to protest, is brilliant. And now there's The Grey Video, which you can watch to share in my delight.

Longtime BCR fiction contributer Cory Doctorow describes it thusly:

Now someone has made a video for one of the Grey Album tracks, "Encore," in which black and white Beatles footage (I'm guessing "A Hard Day's Night") and desaturated footage from a Jay-Zee performance are artfully combined with new footage and CGI (Ringo scratching! John breakdancing!) to make one of the funniest, coolest, and most illegal music videos I've ever seen. Go download it now before the lawsuits start.

Seconded.