Microsoft openly encourages music piracy?

The videos for the Windows 7 Launch Parties are strikingly odd. With the type of relaxed atmosphere normally associated with the QVC channel, the protagonists try to entice you to hold a party for your friends.

But here at one of the aforementioned parties, a host announces to his friends, "If you've enjoyed the music from tonight... you ought to take it home with you".  He then shows them how effortless it is to burn his music collection to disc. Interesting to note that he doesn't encounter any DRM issues.

Overall the videos feel slightly awkard and unnerving.   Though one only has to point to those Seinfeld adverts..

More at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/LaunchParties

 

Found via @cimota on twitter.