{"id":2128,"date":"2010-02-27T09:21:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T09:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2010-02-27T09:21:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T09:21:19","slug":"theft-as-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/theft-as-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Theft as marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.culture-buzz.com\/blog\/For-Love-of-Promotion-Sony-Stages-Awkward-Theft-2536.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.culture-buzz.com\/IMG\/jpg\/Sony_Heavy_Rain_-_Feb.jpg\" title=\"Missing letters\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"55%\" \/><\/a>It looks like Sony have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culture-buzz.com\/blog\/For-Love-of-Promotion-Sony-Stages-Awkward-Theft-2536.html\">vandalised an important landmark in Amsterdam<\/a> in order to promote a new game (hat-tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinapigen.dk\/blog\/2010\/02\/publicity-stunt\/\">Dina<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>It probably seemed like a fun idea to Sony&#8217;s marketing department, but I do hope they will be prosecuted harshly, because it sets a very dangerous precedent if you can commit crimes without punishment if it&#8217;s for marketing purposes.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, in the first instance it might only be the letters in Hollywood&#8217;s logo that get stolen, but what will the next step be?<\/p>\n<p>Will you be allowed to hijack planes to promote a new plane game, or perhaps even blow up a building to promote a new version of Worms?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Sony have vandalised an important landmark in Amsterdam in order to promote a new game (hat-tip: Dina). It probably seemed like a fun idea to Sony&#8217;s marketing department, but I do hope they will be prosecuted harshly, because it sets a very dangerous precedent if you can commit crimes without punishment if it&#8217;s for marketing purposes. I mean, in the first instance it might only be the letters in Hollywood&#8217;s logo that get stolen, but what will the next step be? Will you be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,159,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-en","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}