I recently saw Iron Man, which I thought was quite good (good for technomorons such as myself), but one thing that was blatantly apparent was all the product placement.  From all the Audis in the movie to the Burger King bag…you get the picture.

Well recently I was having a movie-fest celebrating my new Samsung upconverting DVD player which I bought for myself as a gift for being on the Presidential Honor Roll last semester, and I noticed that it’s been in past movies as well.

That got me thinking, with all the piracy going on and Hollywood "loosing money" (they’re still making plenty, just not as much as they did, oh noes!), maybe the product placement is a good thing for us.

Maybe Hollywood will get off of their traditional bandwagon and using product placement and advertisements, we can start seeing movies be much cheaper or even free, such as how Paramount did with Jackass 2.5.

I’m largely a hermit and the ability to check these movies out without having to fight the crowd and getting to see them in glorious HD streaming over the internet seems excellent to me.  Plus the movies being discounted when I DO decide to head out to say Bricktown seems just that much better.

Get to it Hollywood.  Stop suing people and implement better strategies for making money and I’ll stop boycotting you.

Now, if we can only do something about our internet bandwidth…