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Apple's 500 Million Songs
Paul H. writes "Apple is giving away an iPod Mini and a 50-song gift card to whomever purchases every 100,000th song on iTunes, until they reach 500 million downloads. The person who downloads the 500 millionth song wins 10 free iPods, a gold 10,000-song gift card, and 10 additional 50-song gift cards for the iPods. To top it off, the winner gets 4 first row Coldplay tickets with back-stage passes."
A use for all those free songs I had saved up from Mountain Dew bottles!
Cynical side of me sees attempt to drum up more sales.
Realistic side... sees attempt to drum up more sales.
I am not in anyway affiliated with Max Cannon
1. Gift them ...
2. Beowulf cluster
3.
4. Profit!?
Seriously though, you'd run out of people you felt close enough to to give them an iPod before you ran out.
And I think 10,500 songs counts as a lifetime supply.
"For years, I struggled with reality... but I'm happy to say I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd
Play that funky music, nerd boy....
Rumor had it that they had overstocked their inventory of iPods and needed to get rid of them. Is this just a quiet way of getting rid of them
Yep. They overstocked by 10 units and they need to unload them stat.
Sincerely,
Jeve Stobs.
The RIAA will be handing out lawsuits for every 100,000th download on a p2p network, leading up to the public beheading of the person who download the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th song.
much like the bottle caps you could see the bottoms of before buying, this scheme has an obvious flaw.
Just buy 100,000 songs and hey, free ipod!
The horror!
*Awaits insightful from those of similar mind and troll/flamebait from the fans*
"I may be full of crap about this game, and I may be wrong, and that's fine." -Jack Thompson
10 iPods make you 10 times as cool.......which is, of course, why I need so desperately to win.
I HAVEN'T HAD A DATE IN 6 MONTHS!
"Lame" - Galaxar
>The person who downloads the 500 millionth song wins 10 free iPods, a gold 10,000-song gift card...
...and gets to visit the iPod factory run by the mysterious Steve Wonka?
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
We already know of a way to get 10,000 free songs. Your gimmicks ain't flyin'.
The RIAA is sure to notice any company that gives away 10,500 songs...
;0]
But Apple isn't overstocked on Macs.
Sorry, the proper Slashdot response is "Finally, I can make a Beowulf cluster of iPods", or Cool, now I can stripe them together for a fast yet tiny battery powered web server!
My other car is a Popemobile
iTunes API comprehensive?a _Structure);
while (totaldownloads != 500000)
{
download_random_song(Mother_in_Law_Creditcard_Dat
totaldownloads++;
printf("Now I can havea beowulf cluster of iPods!\n");
}
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Oh sure, when Apple gives away 500 million songs it's called a promotion but when I do it the RIAA gets involved.
I never win anything anyway. Hell, I can't even get MOD points and look how they give those away.
I can just see the personal ad now:
Go on a date with me, win an ipod.
You're right, but 10,000 itunes songs has near zero value for me. I can't play them on my computer (no iTunes). I can't play them on my Rio Karma. I could give them to my girlfriend, but she works for the music industry and gets her music for free -- she can't remember ever buying a cd. I guess I could give them to my brother for xmas - 10 per year for the next 1000 years. Won't he be happy.
I'm an ignorent american
In fact, I'm so ignorent that I misspelled "ignorant".
I think it's time for a break...
I know a number of people who posted lies as Anonymous Cowards and had their testicles explode. Absolute, unimpeachable fact, my friend.
I wouldn't be playing so fast and loose with the boys if I were you, AC.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
Really? A friend of mine told me that this guy once used iTunes and woke up in a bathtub of ice without one kidney.
-Ted
-=-=- Quantum physics - the dreams stuff are made of.
yeah, duh
It's somewhere on your 1040, I think line 47 or so, ah, here:
Cash/coffee prizes/winnings (if lifetime winnings submit form Z-27 or enter $1e14, $1e14-20 if filing jointly):
I think 1e14 is as high as the IRS' calculators can go.
As my father lik@(munch munch)...
I could give them to my girlfriend, but she works for the music industry and gets her music for free
The true slashdotter in me doesn't know if I should hate you for sleeping with the enemy or just plain hate you for sleeping with a member of the opposite sex.
You would have made my life a lot easier if you were sleeping with a male indie-artist who got screwed over by a RIAA company.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I heard that there was this EE who was eating at a diner. And when some dude forgot the convolution integral the EE killed the whole town. http://www.rpi.edu/~harmsj/RUPEE/
Anytime someone mentions "my girlfriend" in an online setting I always assume chick on chick. I think I have a problem ;-)
Hey, I've already got an iPod, so I have a slight hint of coolness already. Of course, when everyone looks and finds that I'm listening to "A Flock of Seagulls" and "Wham", that hint of coolness will probably fade.
"Lame" - Galaxar
I haven't either and I'm married! Thats what twins will do.
Second place gets 8 first row Coldplay tickets with back-stage passes.
Laslo! /me hopes parent has seen Real Genius
4. Eligibility. In order to be eligible, entrants must be 13 years of age or older, and a legal resident of one of the 50 United States, including Washington, D.C., Austria, Belgium, Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland or the United Kingdom.
Wow, didn't know Austria, Belgium, Canada etc. were included in the 50 United States!
- Peter Brodersen; professional nerd