McDonald's and Sony Offer Music Downloads

J ROC writes "CNet reports that McDonalds and Sony are teaming up to offer free music downloads to customers who buy a Big Mac Extra Value Meal. The offer, which begins on June 8, offers customers an access code to download one free song at Sony's Connect online music store. Hmmm, let's see, about 600 calories in a Big Mac, an average of 12 songs on a CD, so that's about 7200 calories you will need to consume in order to get an album's worth of music (and I'm not including the calories from the fries and softdrink). Does this offer also include a free gym membership?"

Comments

Wasn't there a previous deal with Apple?

[timgoh0]

Some time ago, there was a similar deal with the iTunes music service. See here.

Re:The first song I'm getting

[M.C. Hampster]

No, no, no, not that song. How about the "I'll take a Big Mac, McBLT, a quarter pounder with some cheese, filet-a-fish, a hamburder, a cheeseburger, a Happy meal....". I can't remember the rest. No one ever seems to remember that promotion.

Re:Required reading

[crustymonkey]

I went and saw SuperSize me last Saturday. Fantastic documentary, I highly recommend it. Just seeing the guy launch his supersized double quarter pounder meal out the window of his car makes it worth seeing.

The secret of the special sauce, revealed!

[Otto]

It's thousand island dressing. With a little tiny amount of extra pickle in it.

"'Cause Knowledge is power!" ;-)

Don't eat the food

[fermion]

It seems that for some of the exclusive offers, such as the disney characters, it has been reported that adults will buy the meals and then, quite sensible, throw the so-called food away and keep the toy.

And, BTW, a big mac extra value meal is probably closer to 1000-1500 calories depending on the drink. For those that don't know, that supplies at least 75% of the calories that many of us need for the entire day, as well as most of the fat. However, it supplies much less than 50% many other nutrients.

Why not just download it for free

[bensin]

Why waste time at Mc Donald's when there are tons of free websites giving the music away for free anyways. For instance http://www.myglobalsound.com has new free music for download every month. I mean Pepsi did it with Apple and they did it right way the first time. In my opinion this Mc Donald's and Sony deal is just not going to work out as expected. I'm not going to buy a big just cause I want free song. Having to collected piece to go to a website and use is no good. The best way is like Apple and Pepsi did it you either win or lose instantly.

Re:The first song I'm getting

[gowen]

I think you mean

Big Mac, McBLT, a Quarter Pounder with some cheese,
Filet-O-Fish, a hamburger, a cheeseburger, a Happy Meal, McNuggets, tasty golden French Fries,regular or larger sizes,
salads, Chef or Garden or a Chicken Salad Oriental, big big breakfast, Egg McMuffin, hot Hotcakes and Sausage,
maybe Biscuits, Bacon, Egg and Cheese, a sausage, Danish, Hash Browns, too,
and for dessert, hot Apple Pies, and sundaes, three varieties, a soft serve cone, three kind of shakes, and chocolaty-chip cookies, and to drink, a Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, an orange drink and
Sprite, and Coffee, decaf too, a lowfat milk, also an orange juice, I love McDonalds, good time great taste, and I get this all at one place.

I'll get my coat...

Re:What happened

[douthat]

Actually, people touting portable mp3 players, that are non-sony branded, are shit out of luck, too.

Check it, from connect.com's EULA: (emphasis mine)

Permitted Uses:
You may play the Connect Downloads an unlimited number of times on up to three (3) personal computers that are registered with the Connect store, including the personal computer on which the Connect Downloads are originally downloaded. Once downloaded to that personal computer, you may transfer the licensed Connect Downloads an unlimited number of times to portable music devices and media (except for WMG's Content, which may be transferred to up to three (3) different portable devices) that read the OpenMG DRM such as the HiMD, the Net MD, and the Memory Stick media. You may not thereafter transfer, copy or export (or the like) such Connect Download from one such device to another, or to any media of any kind without maintaining the OpenMGDRM. In addition, you may also "burn" up to a total of ten (10), (up to five (5) permanent copies of the Connect Downloads in compressed form in the Atrac3 codec encrypted and protected by the OpenMG DRM and up to five (5) Redbook CDs, (except for UMG's content, which may be burned to at least ten (10) Redbook CDs)), to either blank recordable CD-R compact discs or blank recordable CD-RW compact discs (i.e., a physical, non-interactive record configuration that conforms to either (i) in the case of CD-Rs, the so-called "Orange Book Part II" technical specification for "write once" compact discs or (ii) in the case of CD-RWs, the so-called "Orange Book Part III" technical specification for "re-writable" compact discs). Any burning or transferring capabilities of the Connect Downloads are solely an accommodation to you and shall not constitute a grant or waiver (or other limitation or implication) of any rights of the copyright owners of the sound recording and underlying musical composition embodied in the Connect Download.
Non-Permitted Uses:
Any use of the sound recordings as embodied in the Connect Download other than as permitted above is a violation of the copyright in such sound recording under applicable laws, and is prohibited. Except as expressly permitted in the "Permitted Uses" section above, you may not reproduce, distribute or transfer the Connect Downloads, in any format. For example, you may not: (i) transfer the Connect Downloads to anyone else; (ii) register more than 3 computers with the Connect store at any one time; (iii) copy or transfer the Connect Downloads to more than the number of portable music devices expressly permitted in the "Permitted Uses" section above; (iv) "burn" more than ten (10) copies of any particular Connect Download to blank recordable compact disc; or (v) copy or transfer the Connect Downloads to any storage device or blank media not specifically authorized in the "Permitted Uses" section above. In addition, you may not reverse engineer, transcode, decompile, translate, adapt, modify, disassemble or otherwise tamper with the Content, or the software, or circumvent any technology designed to enforce these Limitations on Use. You further agree that you will not attempt to modify the software or the Usage Rules for any reason whatsoever, including for the purpose of disguising or changing ownership of the Content.

If you don't know, NetMD and HiMD are MiniDisc formats from Sony, and Memory Stick is Sonly's proprietary memory format. Oh yeah, and OpenMG is Sony's proprietary DRM software.


I don't know about you, but this doesn't sit well in my stomach..
...but then again, neither would a big mac and fries :-P

The player is even worse

[hweimer]

Notes:
Do not use SonicStage while logged on to a domain user account under Windows 2000
Professional, Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home Edition.

SonicStage should be installed while logged on to an account with administrator privileges.

It's not easy to show that much technical incompetence in such few words.

400 calorie coke

[Dog135]

I just checked a bottle of coke in the office fridge. It's 300 calories for 24oz. That's 12.5 calories per oz.

Now, a large Coke from McDonalds is 32oz, making it 400 calories even.

Big Mac meal, supersized is:

Big Mac: 600
Large Coke: 310 (from McDonald's site, because of ice?)
Large Fry: 520

Total: 1410 calories.

Someone mentioned a cup of lard is 1850 calories. Only 140 calories more then a supersized #1. Add a 12oz orange juice and it's even.

Stats (not for the faint of heart)

The world is not that black and white....

[Otto]

Umm, so you're saying McDonald's food IS healthy?

No, I'm not. Obviously you can only grasp binary concepts, however the real world is not black and white.

Food is just food. There's nothing inherently healthy or unhealthy about any particular food. It's silly to state that this or that food is unhealthy because that's oversimplifing the situation.

The reality of the matter is that what's healthy or unhealthy, at any given moment, depends on the individual and their current dietary needs. Charactizing any particular food as healthy or unhealthy is meaningless without considering the current, changing from moment to moment, needs of the individual consuming the food in question.

Re:Sony's format sucks...

[ncc74656]

I admit that iTunes is only offering DRM Protected AAC, which is almost as bad, but at least AAC has a pretty high quality.

You forgot to mention that the DRM that is there is also relatively simple to remove.