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McDonald's Billion-Song iTunes Giveaway

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.

camperslo writes "The New York Post online has this story. "Less than a month after Pepsi announced a blockbuster deal to give away 100 million downloads from Apple's iTunes music service to its customers, McDonald's is close to a announcing a much bigger deal"." No matter what you think of iTunes, this is tremendous publicity for music on demand services in general. If the public gets a taste for it, this could be the beginning of the end for the audio CD.

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  1. So far, Apple and McDonalds haven't confirmed by burgburgburg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm not saying this isn't going through. I'd be very happy if it did. I'm just saying that having the NY Post as the sole source of your business news piece isn't confidence inspiring.

  2. McDonald's denies the rumor by Therlin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    According to this article, McDonald's is denying the rumor by saying "There are no agreements to announce, so anything else is pure speculation."