iTunes Sends Me a Message - Bum Rush the Charts Aftermath
Okay, I did my bit on Thursday and downloaded Black Lab’s song Mine Again, as part of Bum Rush the Charts.
In my small way, I stuck it to The Man, by showing that big corporations don’t control everything in the music industry.
I guess Steve Jobs heard my shout in the wilderness, because he sent me a message:
Number of iTunes songs I’ve downloaded, 2005 to March 21, 2007: 0
Number of songs downloaded on March 22: 2
Number of times iTunes has accused me of illegally moving those songs onto my iPod: 2
Amount of money I’m likely to spend at iTunes in the next two years: $0
The value of being accused of theft by vendors: Priceless.
Tags: customers, itunes, apple, drm, copyright, music downloads, theft, bum rush the charts, brtc
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3 opinions for iTunes Sends Me a Message - Bum Rush the Charts Aftermath
Dave Traynor
Mar 26, 2007 at 12:57 am
There’s some kind of a lesson here…but damned if I can figure it out. I’ll bet it’s that technology is smarter than we are…right?
Eric Eggertson
Mar 26, 2007 at 6:19 am
Hey, I’m used to being accused of “performing an illegal operation,” as Windows would explain to me for crashing.
Research shows that once you consider yourself a criminal, you stop obeying the rules. Are Microsoft and Apple breeding a generation of pirates and thieves through a concentrated program of criminalizing the population through behaviour modification?
Ike
Mar 26, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Steve Jobs is sending the Blue Hands Men in to seize your iPod…
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