Since rights holders have blocked hundreds of music videos in Germany due to ongoing royalty negotiations with YouTube, a new group called "Bust All Major Labels" has decided to protest.

Many German bloggers and site owners are now adding a few lines of JavaScript code to actively block visitor with IP addresses owned by major labels.

Instead of the message that's displayed when videos are blocked in a location, label employees are given the middle finger, with a warning that reads: "The content of this site isn't available for you. We're not sorry at all about this." 

Christoph Maeschig and Mathias Keswan, the two people behind the project, realize that they won't speed up the royalty negotiations by protesting in this manner, but they want label employees experience their YouTube frustrations.

To them, it makes no sense that the record labels have worked out deals in the U.S., yet German users like themselves are left without music video access.

The Bust All Major Labels represents a subtle, yet clever form of cyber protest.

No one gets hurt or cyber-attacked like Anonymous is famous for, but the labels get to feel the annoyances that German users do when they log onto YouTube.