This is great: UK band puts state surveillance to good use

Unable to afford to produce a music video to promote themselves, UK band Get Out Clause came up with an ingenious plan. They set up and performed their music in front of 80 of the 1,300 closed-circuit television cameras used by British state security. One of those cameras was even on a bus. Then they used the British equivalent of access to information laws, known as the Data Protection Act, to request all the footage the state “collected” of them. They pumped the video into some cheap off-the-shelf digital video editing software (iMovie on the Mac, for example) and – presto! – Get Out Clause has their first video.

Tune isn't' bad either. Here you go:

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