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Zuned! Austin P.D. Hauls Off Microsoft Street Spammers at SXSW

By - Wednesday March 14th 2007

Zuned!

Zuned!

In a rare instance of us supporting The Man, Austin P.D. hauls off a guerrilla marketing posterer for Microsoft Zune on 6th St. at SXSW.

I am not sure I heard everything clearly, but I think he said: “We’ll have none of your advertising for your DRM’d crippleware’d crappy MP3 player littering our town.”




What now?

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