Napster sublimal:

The message from our media manipulators is certanly changing here as the image below shows. Check it out yourself below and just note how it makes you feel. Taken at Earls Court tube station, London June 2005.

The image is of a young woman about to try on clothes that she is thinking of buying. However, she looks a bit uncomfortable and is starting to look around as if she is aware that someone is looking at her. That someone is YOU in voyeur mode. Not only that, the Napster icon (of a little devil-looking thing with headphones) is looking at YOU, looking at her. The phallic-shaped thing immediately in front of the young girl could be a mirror but it is not in view for the changing booth next door, nor can you see any reflection of the model in the 'mirror'..

To put this subliminal stuff into context, Napster was formally a piece of software for people to freely download music with. The music industry did not like the fact that music could be freely exchanged and downloaded so they made an example of the kid who designed the software by suing him and eventually taking over control of the Napster image and its client base. It is now in the hands of the music industry and they basically target mostly young people and students i.e. the age group most interested in buying, selling, and exchanging music. The music industry now charge these people a fee for downloading songs. The message I strongly get from this subliminal is that no matter where you are and how you do it, they, e.g. the music industry watchdogs have the means and power to watch and note exactly what you are up to and what you are doing. It is all about control and they are saying 'watch it' as we have the means to monitor the all of everything. The music industry would dearly love to control all consumer aspects of buying popular music and the subliminal ad above is indicative of the paranoia of a group of people who are feeling (still) the rug of what they had control of previously, slipping away from them.