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Apple and Pepsi Ad Sports RIAA Targets

Posted by michael on from the not-anti-establishment dept.

eefsee writes "USA Today is running a story about Pepsi's Superbowl ad for their iTunes promotion. The ad will apparently feature teens sued by the RIAA, including one young woman who holds out a Pepsi and says, 'We are still going to download music for free off the Internet.' The RIAA response? 'This ad shows how everything has changed.'"

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  1. The 12 Year Old... by inertia187 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a great lesson to teach. Download music, get caught, get famous in a Super Bowl ad. What a bleak and horrible future we live in.

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    1. Re:The 12 Year Old... by gricholson75 · · Score: 5, Funny
      What a bleak and horrible future we live in.

      You live in the future, that must be cool.
    2. Re:The 12 Year Old... by dasmegabyte · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't worry, man, you'll be living there tomorrow.

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    3. Re:The 12 Year Old... by heychris · · Score: 5, Funny
      What a bleak and horrible future we live in.

      I'm not a /. subscriber, you insensitive clod!

    4. Re:The 12 Year Old... by sunya · · Score: 5, Funny

      I live in Australia. Its already tomorrow here...

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    5. Re:The 12 Year Old... by trentblase · · Score: 5, Funny
      But when will then be now??

      Soon

    6. Re:The 12 Year Old... by dasmegabyte · · Score: 4, Funny

      It just was. Weren't you paying attention?

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    7. Re:The 12 Year Old... by karit · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well here in New Zealand we are 2 more hours into the futrue than you are :)

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    8. Re:The 12 Year Old... by memco · · Score: 5, Funny

      When?

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    9. Re:The 12 Year Old... by Geek+of+Tech · · Score: 4, Funny
      >> Well here in New Zealand we are 2 more hours into the futrue than you are :)

      So that's why I never get first post!

      Now where'd I put that tinfoil hat...

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    10. Re:The 12 Year Old... by DarkHelmet · · Score: 4, Funny

      At least it's better than getting high, losing your paper on your PC, and becoming famous for switching to a mac.

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  2. Yeah, right by Gyan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mitch Bainwol, RIAA chairman says ",Legal downloading is great because fans are supporting the future of creative work in America."

    We need to have a 'present' first.

  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  4. The good life by SillySnake · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah yes, the good life.. Drinking Pepsi and stealing from those poor record companies. Back in my day we only have Coke and we had to bootleg eight tracks..

  5. 950 songs over 3 years? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    who along with her older sister and younger brother downloaded 950 songs over three years.

    That is laughable... An average geek downloads that much stuff in 2-3 months.

  6. Re:COOL by jpsst34 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mr. O'Connor, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

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  7. Pepsi thinks it's cool by Fr05t · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh great! I use to love stealing music but if Pepsi likes it then it just ain't cool no more. At least I still have smoking *cough* *cough* You stay the hell away from that Pepsi!

  8. Re:One thing the RIAA is powerless to do... by thelenm · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only we could convince everyone to buy only used CDs! Er, wait...

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  9. Re:pepsi by Mononoke · · Score: 5, Funny
    A couple weeks ago, a suit was trown out (because it was filed after the statute of limitations) when a boy died after swallowing a pin used to "shotgun" a soda.
    Wow, Darwin strikes again.

    Hurray for Darwin.

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  10. Re:Good. by blair1q · · Score: 5, Funny

    >RIAA members are like banks

    What a nasty thing to say about banks.

    P.S. Conning people out of their life's work is not "loaning" them anything.

  11. Updating the '1984' Ad by LittleGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, I know they updated the ad with an iPod, but....

    Have the Blonde being chased by RIAA police while the drones watch the latest RIAA anti-piracy ad on the big screen. Have Blonde throw the sledgehammer into the screen, etc etc.

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  12. sex drugs and rock'n'roll by t0ny · · Score: 4, Funny
    I hope everyone here doesnt lose sight of the real message:

    Pepsi is all about stickin it to 'da man'

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    1. Re:sex drugs and rock'n'roll by secolactico · · Score: 4, Funny

      Pepsi is all about stickin it to 'da man'

      Does it mean Coke is 'da man'?

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    2. Re:sex drugs and rock'n'roll by Disco+Stu · · Score: 4, Funny

      Antidisestablishmentarianism rocks!

      I don't think that word means what you think it means. Either that, or somehow, the unholy union of Apple and jocks reminds you of how much you want the church and state to be one and the same.

  13. best football quote I ever heard was: by mike77 · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Football combines two of the worst aspects of American society: Violence punctuated by committee meetings.." - unknown

    I love foosball btw... even tho it's of da devil!

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  14. Re:Good. by worst_name_ever · · Score: 4, Funny
    Apple is making money, but maybe be spending more than they make, which equals a loss.

    Well, at least until they get to Step 3, anyway.

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  15. Living in the future by tgibbs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry, man, you'll be living there tomorrow.

    They've been telling me that for years, but somehow it's still the present...