A charitable Delhi Hippie Band is suing Psy for stealing
their idea for his YouTube hit Gangnam style. Speaking to
reporters in the aisle of a commuter train the group claims the original idea for the song was sampled
from a single titled ‘Gangrape Style’ off their yet to be
released album Jugaad .
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| with the floodgates of litigation open, the Indian government is suing for breach of this Kamasutra patent |
The Album is a parody of their sub continental society and
their callousness on many matters including women, the caste system, curry and bathing
on the river Ganges.
According to our reliable sources the group also plans to
sue the Korean Pop star for emotional distress and loss of revenue.
Asked why they didn’t release the single earlier the Band
blamed government red tape for the delay.
“We had to be
approved by the Indian film and
censorship board first and that
meant deleting and/ or modifying some content which they found offensive
which meant we had to go back to the studio” said Vimal
Ramamurthy.
“In short Psy beat us to it, he got there first and on
YouTube it’s all about who gets there first. It seems like we turned up on Friday for a cricket
match that was played on Sunday
afternoon [previous week ]but that doesn’t mean we don’t own the game” added Vimal.
Fans agreed but critics asked why now, what were they
waiting for all that time. Their lawyers
admit luck was not on their side either.
“ We were working on presenting a solid
case gathering electronic evidence and reliable witnesses and that takes a
little bit of time then came this….you know, that bus thing”
their lead counsel
said referring to the gang rape
of a twenty something college girl in a bus, who later died in
hospital while undergoing treatment.
According to their lawyers the Delhi Band was
reluctant to go ahead with
litigation in the first place
preferring the release of the “Gangrape Style” on YouTube to
go head to head with the intellectual property thief ‘Psycho’s’ so lame
“Gangnam Style”
“We figured
maybe if we just download it [on the
internet] netizens will see through it and hopefully we will be able to
rest the case on who is the real McCoy
and who is the Joseph Kony”
said a confident Vimal apparently the defacto spokesperson of the Band.
“But Bam!! Another 29
year old woman is raped, it’s on the networks and we decide screw it!! We’re suing.” Added Vimal.
Pundits and government officials agreed in unison it was a
wise decision for two main reasons. Number one, they were screwed anyways and like most things charity they
needed the money badly.
Number two, posting such a potentially viral video like
“Gangrape Style” by an Indian group, after back to back horrific headline
hogging (f)actual gang rapes had the potential of doing more harm than good.
“ First, there is a chance of Pakistan promoting it in a bad way, then it goes viral and that would be a moral nuclear holocaust to our
social standing no matter how noble the original intention. It would
make India look bad. Second, it would be considered insensitive to the families
and friends of those affected. ” said India’s
home minister Sushilkumar Shinde in a
statement some noted was sort of misplaced in priority, and paranoid.
As of time of press, the Delhi Band Lawyers were discussing
an out of court settlement following a
proposal by the Band dubbed ‘One Pepper Spray
A Lady [OPSAL]” but Psy lawyers
warned on the logistical nightmare of providing more than half a billion pepper sprays in a country 758 times
the size of Kenya…and their effectiveness as most new cases were evolving to gang
rape style.
Eneza
