They are the same company, but the actual meat of the article is behind their stupid paywall. They have a shitty model for a news site, which is give you random bits of info, but not the ones you want, then ask for money.
Next thing you know, the gas station will be giving out free music download passes with a full tank of gas.
Thankfully, the fad will eventually die and the services that are left will be decent.
Way ahead of you man
This charlatan who started WebMD has already cornered the market on soda music sales.
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/1003/ 26arnold.html
A little excerpt
How LidRock works
LidRock embeds mini-CDs in the lids of fountain drinks.
It sells the lids to movie theaters, fast-food restaurants, theme parks and other venues. These outlets can absorb the cost or charge consumers extra. LidRock acquires songs, movies and games to put on the CDs. The small CDs don't work in most cars' CD players, but work in other players.
Examples of LidRock deals:
A rugby video game, on drink lids at McDonald's in New Zealand, tied to the country's rugby championships.
Regal movie theaters selling drinks with CDs containing an Elvis Presley music video and two digitally remastered tracks from the "Elvis 2nd to None" album.
A mini-movie, starring Ashanti, tied to her song "Rain On Me," distributed on lids at Regal theaters. LidRock cups are featured in Ashanti's video, and she carried a cup on stage when presenting at MTV Music Awards.
I checked 50 Cent, Nas, Obie Trice, all are edited versions. As I listen to 90% hip-hop this makes them useless to me, in addition to the WMA restrictions. And in addition to the fact that they are evil. I'm not sure if even most average-to-dumb americans will buy all edited stuff.
Sounds like you're onto something. I think if there isn't a high-priced family member of a product, folks think it's cheap, lame or shareware-in-a-box. Somewhat like the 3 for $8 12-packs of soda in a grocery store. Of course you can just buy one pack for the discounted price, but who can devide 3 into 8?
I was gooing to reply to this too, as it is one of my pet peeves, for exactly the reasons you stated. It is sort of a double negative, and is not correct, in spite of common usage.
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They are the same company, but the actual meat of the article is behind their stupid paywall. They have a shitty model for a news site, which is give you random bits of info, but not the ones you want, then ask for money.
Next thing you know, the gas station will be giving out free music download passes with a full tank of gas./ 26arnold.html
Thankfully, the fad will eventually die and the services that are left will be decent.
Way ahead of you man
This charlatan who started WebMD has already cornered the market on soda music sales.
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/1003
A little excerpt
How LidRock works
LidRock embeds mini-CDs in the lids of fountain drinks.
It sells the lids to movie theaters, fast-food restaurants, theme parks and other venues. These outlets can absorb the cost or charge consumers extra. LidRock acquires songs, movies and games to put on the CDs. The small CDs don't work in most cars' CD players, but work in other players.
Examples of LidRock deals:
A rugby video game, on drink lids at McDonald's in New Zealand, tied to the country's rugby championships.
Regal movie theaters selling drinks with CDs containing an Elvis Presley music video and two digitally remastered tracks from the "Elvis 2nd to None" album.
A mini-movie, starring Ashanti, tied to her song "Rain On Me," distributed on lids at Regal theaters. LidRock cups are featured in Ashanti's video, and she carried a cup on stage when presenting at MTV Music Awards.
I checked 50 Cent, Nas, Obie Trice, all are edited versions. As I listen to 90% hip-hop this makes them useless to me, in addition to the WMA restrictions.
And in addition to the fact that they are evil.
I'm not sure if even most average-to-dumb americans will buy all edited stuff.
Sounds like you're onto something. I think if there isn't a high-priced family member of a product, folks think it's cheap, lame or shareware-in-a-box.
Somewhat like the 3 for $8 12-packs of soda in a grocery store. Of course you can just buy one pack for the discounted price, but who can devide 3 into 8?
I was gooing to reply to this too, as it is one of my pet peeves, for exactly the reasons you stated. It is sort of a double negative, and is not correct, in spite of common usage.