An article in Saturday's Globe and Mail rounds up recent anti-iPod activity:
If we can draw a lesson from Yegor Sak's adventure, it's never to underestimate the public's desire to watch an iPod be destroyed.
We know this, because Sak, a 19-year-old Toronto concierge who goes by "Yegor Simpson" on-line, is the force behind SmashMyiPod.com, a website that's gained global attention for its violent premise. Sak made web surfers an offer: If they could raise $400 toward the purchase of a new iPod, he would videotape it being smashed to pieces right in the showroom.
[...]Earlier this year, a New Yorker named Andy Rementer put up posters in Manhattan, showing a crudely-drawn iPod, with the words "You don't need me" written on its screen. Photos of the posters became popular on-line; like Sak's video, they quickly stirred up a debate.
"I was frustrated by the way iPods were forced upon us," says Rementer, adding that protest is tough in an iPod world. "Most people were complaining about the fact that I drew the wrong number of buttons on the iPod."
Link: Globetechnology: Get ready for the anti-iPod movement.
Links:
- SmashMyiPod.com
- www.anti-ipod.co.uk/
- ihateyouripod.com
- Andy Rementer's "You don't need me" - picture on flickr.
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