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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam |
| Date | 18 Sep 2014 21:55:31 GMT |
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On 2014-09-18, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote: > On 16 Sep 2014 21:26:14 GMT > Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > >> On 2014-09-16, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote: >> >> > The whole endeavor yearns >> > desperately to be a landmark new innovation for the music industry, >> > perhaps something along the lines of Radiohead's legitimately >> > earth-moving In Rainbows, which was self-released with variable pricing >> > in 2007 and remains the gold standard against which music industry >> > innovation is measured. >> >> Bunch of whiney shoe-gazers. > > > First world problems maybe, but I think it's been an uncomfortable > reminder for many that their device is not truly "theirs" to own. Spot on. -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 42nd day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3180 "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies”. Groucho Marx.
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Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-16 12:06 +0000
Re: Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-09-16 09:56 -0400
Re: Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-09-16 17:05 +0000
Re: Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-09-16 21:26 +0000
Re: Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-17 12:41 +0200
Re: Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-09-17 13:23 +0000
Re: Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-09-19 07:40 +0000
Re: Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-09-19 16:37 +0000
Re: Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-18 11:17 +0000
Re: Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-09-18 21:55 +0000
Re: Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-17 12:54 +0200
Re: Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-17 12:22 +0000
Re: Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-09-17 13:24 +0000
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