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Singing Cow To Attack CBDTPA

Posted by michael on from the stampede dept.

karmawarrior writes "Gateway is launching an advertising campaign against Senator Holling's CBDTPA bill, which, apparently will include its cow mascot encouraging computer users to legally download MP3s and burn their own CDs." Wired also has a story; see Gateway's website for more, as Gateway takes a page from Apple's "Rip-Mix-Burn" playbook.

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  1. Everything you need to know about Gateway... by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 0, Offtopic



    ...can be summed up in this story:

    A couple years ago, I was in the market to buy a new monitor. I had saved up $500 or so to buy a new 21" multisync monitor, and knew the ones that Gateway sold were of good quality (this was 1997, 1998 or so)... So, I gathered up my money and went down to the new "Gateway Country" store that had opened up here in town to go buy a monitor.

    With $500 in hand, I was turned away within 30 seconds of entering their store. Their reason:

    "Sorry, we don't sell the monitors separately. You'de have to buy a whole system to get the monitor."

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    Bowie J. Poag

  2. Re:*sigh* by interiot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    mod up

  3. Re:What's Your Beef? by laserjet · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Vegetarian: Indian word for "bad hunter"

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    Moon Macrosystems. Sun's biggest competitor.