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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."
Currently at 478 million downloads, the max amount of iPods would be about 230 (10 + 22million / 100K), but your point is valid.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
"A use for all those free songs I had saved up from Mountain Dew bottles!"
I hope you cashed in your credits and downloaded those songs already because if not, they expired.
There's a new promotion on 40oz (or is it 33oz?) Slurpee cups at 7Eleven until the end of this month. Have at it.
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Songs purchased using freebie codes are not eligible, as per the rules.
It's convenient. I can go surfing around in iTMS, find a song I want, and be listening to it 20 seconds later. All at three in the morning from the comfort of my home.
With CDs the best case is that I order it from amazon.com and get it a few days later, along with 10 other tracks on the disc which I may or may not want. Worst case, I have to drive to the store and stand in line to pay.
iTMS wins the convenience and simplicity battle hands-down.
I never resell CDs, they just aren't worth enough to make it worth the bother. With iTMS tracks I don't waste space on storing physical media I never use.
No, it'd just be following the law. In the United States, giveaways like this have to be on a "no purchase necessary" basis so as not to run afoul of federal and state gambling laws.
Yeah, reeeeeaaaally evil. Except for that annoying fact that Apple gets less than 20% of that $.99 for each song. This goes to pay for servers, storage, and bandwidth. NOT Steve Jobs' pockets. iPods line his pockets. The other 80% goes to the labels.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. - but you still need itunes .
How To Enter. You will automatically be entered into the Promotion by: 1) downloading a song from iTunes (any free downloads will be deemed an ineligible entry); or 2) a free alternative means of sending an e-mail to Apple at itunes500@apple.com via the iTunes "Tell a Friend" feature (a song download or Tell a Friend e-mail will be deemed an "Entry(ies)"). The "Tell a Friend" feature can be easily accessed at iTunes by selecting a song, and clicking the "Tell a Friend" link that is displayed for that song. One Entry will be automatically submitted for each song downloaded or Tell a Friend e-mail sent. The Promotion begins following the downloading of the 480,000,000th iTunes song, and ends with the downloading of the 500 millionth Entry ("End Date"). Only Entries submitted in this time period will be accepted.
I have 1 word for you regarding these: msconfig
Just turn the iTunesHelper and iPodService off...It is not that difficult to do...
In fact if you look HERE you will see that iTunesHelper.exe is a non-essential service and therefore safe to turn off.
the iPodService is also non-essential. You can turn it off as well. Look HERE for more information.
Of course not, if you only sell one at a time. Take a whole bunch in at once, and it's a different story. Same thing with used books. I took in 4 boxes of books to a used book store, and left with $80 for the half hour of work it took. 3 years later, my salary still hasn't hit $160/hour, so I consider it well worth the bother.
It sounds like you want http://www.allofmp3.com/. They're just like iTunes except:
1) They charge by the amount transferred
2) They're ten times cheaper
3) They let you choose what kind of encoding you want
4) They're technically legal (thanks to Russia's "mandatory licensing" laws)
5) If you use it you piss of the RIAA.
If you run Windows they even have a client that's not unlike iTunes. Other OSes will need to use their web interface.
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9. Taxes. All taxes associated with the receipt or use of the prizes are the sole responsibility of each winner. Apple reserves the right to withhold any taxes as required by applicable law. All prizes will be awarded (other than prizes withheld for tax purposes as required by applicable law) and are not transferable. No substitutions (including for cash) are permitted, but Apple reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater monetary value to the prizes if for any reason any prize cannot be awarded as contemplated in these rules.
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