NYC politico demands Sony pay $20k for PSP ads
Seems Sony have really stirred it up with their Odd ad program, as someone who has graffiti problems at work i find it annoying too, heres the article at Gamestop
When a series of bizarre graffiti pieces incorporating drawings of the PSP began showing up in cities across the country, most gamers immediately smelled a(nother) viral marketing campaign. Those suspicions were confirmed a few weeks ago, when television ads featuring similar art began running. Just before New Year's Eve, Sony admitted to the BBC that it had hired graffiti artists in seven cities to paint the art on legally licensed walls in an effort to target "urban nomads."
However, the fact Sony went by the book isn't good enough for a New York City official. Queens Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. told the New York Post that he wants Sony to take down the ads and pay $20,000 to the city's anti-graffiti program. "Children are impressionable, and if they see a wall with graffiti on it and they don't know that it's done with permission, it could very well lead to them believing that it's OK for them to do it," said Vallone. Sony defended its use of the space, saying it was merely a "different" approach to advertising.
The flap over the PSP ads isn't the first time games and anti-graffiti activists have locked horns. Last August, the organizations Keep America Beautiful and the National Council to Prevent Delinquency lambasted Atari for publishing Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, claiming the game would spark an increase in graffiti.
By the boox, and with permission
If they paid for this to be done, and had permission, and did it "by the book" then if you dont like it, **** you!
They did it with permission!!!
those corperate assholes taking away peoples freedom (making it so you cant paint on building without permission [the name is graffiti] is one thing, but making it so you cant without permission, is taking away our freedom) say that a kid will see them done with permission, but not know they were done with permission, and think that he can do it to...
ok, so a kid sees a guy drive a car with permission (a friggan "liscence") so doesnt that mean he can too?.
A teenager sees some old person, or some normal person, on the street lighting up a joint with permission (medical marajuana liscence) doesnt that mean he can too?
A kid sees a beer commercial where a guy takes a beer from under a rattlesnake.. doesnt that mean he can too?
Do you see my examples??? Sony doesn't have to pay them $20k because they "demand" it... they have no place to demand it! if they did, then yeah sony, i want 20k too!
This is the exact kind of thing that puts more unneeded, unconstitutional laws on us.. all in this system of a down...
