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Re: Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam

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Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2014-09-16, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> > http://www.wired.com/2014/09/apples-devious-u2-album-giveaway-even-worse-spam/
> >
> >    Last week, Apple gave us all a gift called Songs of Innocence. On
> >    Monday, it released instructions on how to give that gift back.

> <snip>

> >
> >    This is all technically true, but bloviating aside, there's a very
> >    simple reason why this is unprecedented, and that is because it doesn't
> >    make any sense. Never before has such a major technology company also
> >    operated as publicist for a creative artist. The whole endeavor yearns
> >    desperately to be a landmark new innovation for the music industry,

> To me its horribly reminiscent of they way all my local radio stations
> got taken over or merged in the early 2000s and then used the same
> playlists.  The formula "you will enjoy what we provide" doesn't work.

It was worse than that here.  They all became "talk radio" during the
morning drive hours, such that there was one song per hour, 300
commericals, and the rest of the time was taken up by the "shock jock"
and friends just talking about crap no one cared a damn about.

> Actually that me onto another subject.  In 2002 Big Content was moaning
> about piracy affecting sales,

Big Content moans about piracy affecting sales because they utilize the
incorrect formula that "one pirated copy always equates to one lost
sale" when the reality is that many of those pirate copies would never
have been sales.  The "pirate" would simply have done without before
buying the album.

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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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