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NY Post: McDonalds to give away 1 billion iTunes songs?
By Dennis Lloyd
Publisher, iLoungeGoogle+
Published: Thursday, November 6, 2003
News Categories: iTunes
“Less than a month after Pepsi announced a blockbuster deal to give away 100 million downloads from Apple’s iTunes music service to its customers, McDonald’s is close to a announcing a much bigger deal, The Post has learned.
In a dramatic move that gives a thumbs up to the music industry’s efforts at creating legal alternatives to file sharing, McDonald’s plans to give away up to 1 billion songs in a marketing campaign, according to sources familiar with the matter.”
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Quarter Pounder w/ Cheese here I come… to food is starting to pay for itself now
Posted by zelig2 on November 6, 2003 at 6:23 AM (PST)
2
Would you like fries with that??
Posted by Wildman_CAL on November 6, 2003 at 7:24 AM (PST)
3
Great… another reason to contribute to the morbid obesity of the average american. Now all the people inspired to exercise by having their own personal sountrack in the form of the iPod will be vastly overshadowed by the corpulent masses stuffing their faces with big macs and swizzling highly caloric pepsi to wash it down in the hopes of a free song.
Posted by wunderdave on November 6, 2003 at 7:45 AM (PST)
4
Great… Anyone have good ideas for removing grease from an iPod?
Posted by John on November 6, 2003 at 7:46 AM (PST)
5
1 Billion songs…i need to get a bigger pod 40 gig is not going to fitt all them on it.
Posted by Ian Payne on November 6, 2003 at 8:04 AM (PST)
6
I hope they attach free songs to Large Diet Cokes… cause too many value meals and I’ll gain all my newly-lost weight back.
Damn! Why oh why can’t Subway give out 1,000,000,000 songs?!?!?!
Posted by azdude_15gb on November 6, 2003 at 8:14 AM (PST)
7
Because Jared has a Zen.
Posted by SpideyXP on November 6, 2003 at 9:40 AM (PST)