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Written by tom
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A couple of interesting updates in our ongoing Media Models discussion. First off the new Iron Man movie is reportedly so stuffed full of product placement that it is little more than and giant advert ;
When Downey busts out of his desert jail in his MacGyver-meets-Robocop suit, for example, the first thing he says he's going to do when he gets home are hold a press conference and get "a real American cheeseburger". Cut to the next scene, and there he is at the press conference, very conspicuously holding a Burger King wrapper in his hand....Consumer group Campaign For A Commercial Free Childhood have already complained about Burger King, but look on the back of last week's Film & Music supplement, or virtually any other current publication, or the TV ads, and there's Iron Man/Downey with his sporty new Audi supercar.
Which makes you wonder why execs would worry if it ended up on the net being shared? And goth-techno musician Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) has taken the sharing music thing and really run with it ;
Two months after releasing a new album online, and quickly selling [a $300 deluxe version] that earned him a pretty penny, he's back offering another new Nine Inch Nails album as a completely free download in a variety of high quality formats. However, it's not just that. He's also planning to then sell (scarce) versions of the product as well, in CD and vinyl format for those who want it. And, given his past experiments, it seems likely that he'll figure out a way to make it worth buying.
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