Busted, nailed, snagged: Sony admits to viral blog
If the denizens of the internet booing at them wasn’t enough, the Federal Trade Commission telling viral marketers to fess up probably grabbed their attention. Checking the Zipatoni PSP viral blog, we find a confession and apology (of sorts) from Sony about their doings.
The apology on the “alliwantforxmasisapsp” blog states simply,
Busted. Nailed. Snagged. As many of you have figured out (maybe our speech was a little too funky fresh???), Peter isn’t a real hip-hop maven and this site was actually developed by Sony. Guess we were trying to be just a little too clever. From this point forward, we will just stick to making cool products, and use this site to give you nothing but the facts on the PSP.
Sony Computer Entertainment America
It’s a small triumph for consumers who don’t want to end up duped and coerced to buy something. It’s also a large triumph for the internet sleuths who uncovered this and let the nets know about it. Best of all, we now get to keep a YouTube video of some guy rapping and dancing for the highlight reels at the end of the year. We wonder if this is going to be a second Three Speech blog for them now, though.
Let’s just hope Sony’s a whole lot more forthcoming about these kinds of things in the future. We don’t want to have to go through this again next December, do we?
If the denizens of the internet booing at them wasn’t enough, the Federal Trade Commission telling viral marketers to fess up probably grabbed their attention. Checking the Zipatoni PSP viral blog, we find a confession and apology (of sorts) from Sony about their doings.
The apology on the “alliwantforxmasisapsp” blog states simply,
Busted. Nailed. Snagged. As many of you have figured out (maybe our speech was a little too funky fresh???), Peter isn’t a real hip-hop maven and this site was actually developed by Sony. Guess we were trying to be just a little too clever. From this point forward, we will just stick to making cool products, and use this site to give you nothing but the facts on the PSP.
Sony Computer Entertainment America
It’s a small triumph for consumers who don’t want to end up duped and coerced to buy something. It’s also a large triumph for the internet sleuths who uncovered this and let the nets know about it. Best of all, we now get to keep a YouTube video of some guy rapping and dancing for the highlight reels at the end of the year. We wonder if this is going to be a second Three Speech blog for them now, though.
Let’s just hope Sony’s a whole lot more forthcoming about these kinds of things in the future. We don’t want to have to go through this again next December, do we?
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