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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. SCARRY by ForestGrump · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OH god!
    I can't bring myself to read the article.
    When the page loaded, that face looked at me and I just had to run away.

    Please no more scarry plastic figures being PR persons. Seriously, I'm scared of Ronald and haven't sat in his lap since I was like 6.

    -The Grumpy Child.

    --
    Is it true that more people vote for the winner of American Idol, than vote for the president? -Ali G.
  2. Re:AAC is nice and all... by LNO · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...but what if you like the audio CD? what if you prefer lossless music, with coverart, booklet and printed media you can hold in your hand?

    Why do you hate America so much? Opposition is unpatriotic, you know.

  3. Re:What better way to..... by ratamacue · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Have you ever heard it? Live at the Acropolis is one incredible performance. I don't care for his studio albums however.