iTunes Pepsi

[Vanilla Coke]

When Mountain Dew had some odd contest where you collect caps, enter codes, get points, then spend them on stuff, I went around campus picking them up(the place was was covered with bottles caps and other such trash) and got me a good amount of stuff.

I heard Mountain Dew decreases your sperm count, maybe that's just a rumour.

It's a stupid rumour, as to why somebody would make that up is beyond me. >>

[Hostile]

No, no, NO.

I am entirely 100% opposed to legal "file sharing", such as iTunes. Just as I am opposed to megalomaniacal whores like Pepsi. Combining the two is wrong. You're just helping the fucking RIAA.

[stargazer]

No, no, NO.

I am entirely 100% opposed to legal "file sharing", such as iTunes. Just as I am opposed to megalomaniacal whores like Pepsi. Combining the two is wrong. You're just helping the fucking RIAA.

hmm-mmm?
What's there to be opposed about with iTunes? lespecially on an intranet type system like a school campus - listen to good stuff, not get sued... it's nice. sure the RIAA might have their heads in their proverbial behinds, but still...

[Hesse]

Pepsi has allot more sugar in it than coke, that may be why coke is more thirst quenching. I'm a Dr. Pepper/Cream Soda guy myself. as for mountain dew, i love it, and actually high ammounts of caffien have been proven to increase fertility. I really like i-tunes. I prefer winamp as far as playback, but i-radio, accessibility and sharing, you can't beet i-tunes.

um hostile... you seem... hostile. Why shouldn't I pay for music?

[Hostile]

No, no, NO.

I am entirely 100% opposed to legal "file sharing", such as iTunes. Just as I am opposed to megalomaniacal whores like Pepsi. Combining the two is wrong. You're just helping the fucking RIAA.

hmm-mmm?
What's there to be opposed about with iTunes? lespecially on an intranet type system like a school campus - listen to good stuff, not get sued... it's nice. sure the RIAA might have their heads in their proverbial behinds, but still...

I dont run iTunes, infact i've made a point of not using it. However to the best of my understand its a system whereby you pay for and download mp3s, right? Thats not what i'm interested in for the internet. I like free stuff.

[Kraeloc]

No, no, NO.

I am entirely 100% opposed to legal "file sharing", such as iTunes. Just as I am opposed to megalomaniacal whores like Pepsi. Combining the two is wrong. You're just helping the fucking RIAA.

Right behind you. Except I'm completely for illegal filesharing. But if I happened to obtain a cap with a free song code on it, I'm not gonna not use it.

[Kraeloc]

I dont run iTunes, infact i've made a point of not using it. However to the best of my understand its a system whereby you pay for and download mp3s, right? Thats not what i'm interested in for the internet. I like free stuff.

Actually, hostile, it's a FUCKING MEDIA PLAYER. The music store is just a plus. I never use it to buy music either. But it is the most kickass media player in the world.

Now, begone! *sleeps*

[Nadreck]

I dont run iTunes, infact i've made a point of not using it. However to the best of my understand its a system whereby you pay for and download mp3s, right? Thats not what i'm interested in for the internet. I like free stuff.

If you don't want to use iTunes, that's your choice.  You clearly haven't done any research whatsoever into what you are talking about.  Again, your choice what you bother learning more about.  But don't sit around and talk about how evil it is when you HAVEN'T bothered learning about it.

I am opposed to the practices of the RIAA.  I disagree with the extortionary pricing, and the miniscule percentage that actually goes to the people who wrote and performed those songs.  I like free stuff as much as the next person.  But sitting around and griping about having to pay ANYTHING for music is being nothing more than a whiny bitch.  It costs time, effort, and money to produce music (or anything creative), and to not be willing to pay a FAIR (ie not overinflated) price for that product is flat out WRONG.

THINK about what you're saying.  Are you saying that if someone took a painting that you'd worked on for months to complete, took it and put it on their wall and started making lithographs of it, all without permission or compensation, you wouldn't be the least bit pissed?

[colin]

Actually, hostile, it's a FUCKING MEDIA PLAYER. The music store is just a plus. I never use it to buy music either. But it is the most kickass media player in the world.

Now, begone! *sleeps*

I can't even find the music store in my iTunes. Maybe the plug-in I used removed it.

[stargazer]

Ah, Nabil, you are a smart boy...


iTunes does WAY more than the music store. I use it exclusively now and have never TOUCHED the store.
especially as I said on a campus intranet - anyone can share their music on the iTunes network and anyone else can listen to whatever they want just not copy it to their computer (with the actual iTunes program, at least.......) and it's great - I've got about 45 people's music libraries accessible to me. And, it's LEGAL.

[colin]

anyone can share their music on the iTunes network and anyone else can listen to whatever they want just not copy it to their computer (with the actual iTunes program, at least.......) and it's great - I've got about 45 people's music libraries accessible to me. And, it's LEGAL.

...*sniff* I don't have that either... is the network and music store only available to user in the US?

[Chris P]

Pepsi Max > Pepsi but Vanilla coke > Pepsi Max

[stargazer]

...*sniff* I don't have that either... is the network and music store only available to user in the US?

according to my British friends at least, the intranet thing is the same anywhere. soooo niiiiiice

[Nadreck]

When they first released iTunes 4, you could share over more than just the Intranet.  You could share across the internet to remote computers.  Legality issues cropped up (RIAA got cranky), so Apple scaled it back to just computers on an internal network.

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/05/27/itunes/index.php?redirect=1076607526000

Slick, slick program.  By far the best media player I've used on any platform.

a_word: the iTunes Music Store looks like a playlist, and is listed along with the other playlists.  It should be green, with a title of "Music Store".  If it isn't there, check your preferences to make sure that it's turned on.  (Nice little checkbox that says "Show iTunes Music Store" in the Store preference section.)

[Vanilla Coke]

Pepsi Max > Pepsi but Vanilla coke > Pepsi Max

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