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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."
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
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!
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...
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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.
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.
Cynical side of me sees attempt to drum up more sales.
Realistic side... sees attempt to drum up more sales.
That's because you're outside of the Jobs Reality Distortion Field(tm). If you were inside it (where you're *SUPPOSED* to be) you would in fact see this for what it really is - a selfless attempt by Apple to bring about world peace.
Come. Join is. Everything is happy here. And made of white plastic - which is a bonus.
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.