Basically all the following links are about $ony’s “guerrilla” style marketing campaign for the PSP. Here’s the basic idea. Sony, a major international corporation, paid ad artists, to go around in major cities and paint PSP ads, that look like graffiti. These ads were 1. not paid for 2. painted on other people’s property and 3. vandalism basically. But still i think they figure since they’re a big corporation, they can just go around and put stuff on other people’s property just because they feel like it. This for some reasons sounds a lot like the Sony DRM scandal, which resulted in Sony recalling a whole slew of Sony BMG CDs, because they basically installed a malicious program onto peoples computers and made it hidden, so you wouldn’t even know it was on your computer if you had it. Even more so, removing this thing could break your OS.

It just really disturbs me that some big company has this blatant disregard for personal property, when on the other end of things they are hyper-concerned with people copying their own copyrighted work (which can actually be copied legally for limited use. Even more so they’re trying to block this legal copying anyway).

Well either way. Philadelphia has actually fined Sony corp for putting up these illegal advertisements. Go Philly.. i love my hometown ;).

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/13513545.htm

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/13524305.htm

http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/la-na-graffiti2jan02,1,7831128.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

sony crap

I’ve seen graffiti that actually looks cool… this stuff looks stupid.. its as bad as some idiot painting Dude! on the overpass of the highway (and at least i can give that guy credit for having the ingenuity, or stupidity, to figure out how to hang down from the overpass over a highway to write that.)