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Say Goodbye To That Unwanted U2 Album
Ronin Developer writes Apple has listened to the complaints of those who object to having received a pushed copy of U2's latest album as part of their recent campaign. While nobody has been charged for the download, some objected to having it show up in their purchases and, in some cases, pushed down to their devices. While it is possible to remove the album from your iTunes library, it takes more steps than most would like to take. Apple has responded and released a tool to make it possible to remove the album from your iTunes library in a single step.
Who would have thought getting free music would have caused such an uproar? Hasn't the RIAA been filing suits against people for downloading music without paying for it for a decade or so?
It's nice Apple responded, but the outrage over this whole thing (especially for people who have already bought into the iTunes garden) seems way overblown.
Some perspective might help.
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It seems like the whole world enjoys being outraged by the pettiest bullshit (and indeed goes out of its way to FIND things the be outraged about) in a world full of very important concerns no one gives a shit about.
a) false. You had to have your device set to allow automatic pushes.
2) Hardly new.
III) That's irrelevant to what happened. You putting this here tells me the only reason you are upset is because it's a group you don't like.
I know, I now, it's quite fashionable to hate a guy who spends a shit load of money helping people.
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But it's 5 days of millions of people. So it's centuries of their souls, compared to just some years.
U2 should pay the soul difference. Preferably not in music. Please.
Yet another /. article with links that don't actually give you any useful content. When you select the link in the text "tool to make it possible to remove the album from your iTunes library in a single step." wouldn't you expect to see an article about the tool and actually have a link to the tool? Oh no can't have that because you have to prop up what ever favorite news feed you are promoting.
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That means almost five month and a half to produce a single song. In the real world where you need to do real work, you'd have starved to death long before you could finish your album.
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If you are that concerned about data usage, I would imagine you have turned off the option to automatically download updates and purchases via cellular connection. That is, you can turn on automatic downloads, but toggle whether that is over wifi or cellular.
a) false. You had to have your device set to allow automatic pushes.
Which is, of course, the default.
And, if I'm not mistaken, Apple defaults to downloading anything less than 100MB over cellular data. Which could be quite costly to people on more expensive data plans.
III) That's irrelevant to what happened. You putting this here tells me the only reason you are upset is because it's a group you don't like.
Well, yeah, it's U2. Their music is terrible. I'd be pretty pissed if I had U2 forced on me.
Wait, "anyone who has an Apple account?" Crap. That does include me.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
I don't have an iProduct that got force-downloaded. Today is my anniversary (a big number). So I don't see a first-world problem; I see a relationship problem.
It's not about the album. It's about control. It's about changing the station in the car radio when someone else is driving. It's about putting up with his sports posters and her frilly pillowcases. It's about changing the address list so it's alphabetical by first name instead of last name, and rearranging the desktop to be organized horizontally instead of vertically.
I feel your pain. But I can assure you that you can get through this.
it's quite fashionable to hate a guy who spends a shit load of money helping people.
No, he spends a shitload of money promoting himself and boosting his own ego and sense of self-importance.
That's selfish, not selfless. Big difference.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
That's skirting around the issue - this wasn't a purchase, so it shouldn't have been distributed that way.
Apparently no one is allowed to spend a shit load of money helping people without having do-nothing assholes hate on them for it, usually by accusing them of self-promotion and ego boosting. At least be a little bit original.
I've learned that they're worthless, so I don't read AC comments anymore.
People acting like users have no right to complain about free shit need some perspective.
For example, do you like tofu? No? Well tough shit, it's free, and I'm going to force feed you three pounds of it. You have no right to complain about free food. Hell, I'll opt for stinky tofu while I'm at it. Here in Taiwan, people love that shit. Everyone who doesn't thinks it smells and tastes like raw sewage.
U2 is the stinky tofu of the music industry. You have people who like them, and people who can't imagine why you would find it necessary to inflict such pain upon yourself.
it's quite fashionable to hate a guy who spends a shit load of money helping people.
No, he spends a shitload of money promoting himself and boosting his own ego and sense of self-importance.
That's selfish, not selfless. Big difference.
You dipshit.
Whether you agree with his politics or not, Bono is downright serious about his charity work.
Good for him.
Just compare him to Jenny "vaccines cause autism" McCarthy or Rosie "fire can't melt steel" O'Donnell.
Hell, if you want a celebrity that's full of himself? Boosting his own ego? Take Kanye West. Please.
Modded insightful because you think making music isn't real work?
Idiots, all of them.
I wonder what you consider real work?
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This was back in the days when a significant amount of popular music was interesting and creative.
Also known as the days when you were most likely a teenager or young adult.
The MOST troubling part here is how disproportionally butthurt people seem to be over having a free album given to them. Also, spare me from having to read one more person prattle on about how their "curated" iTunes library has been harmed.
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