People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you, then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are "The Advertisers" and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like whenever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, rearrange and reuse. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe ou. They have rearranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
-Banksy
thanks to LA correspondent JE for bringing this to my attention.
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