iTunes-Pepsi promo hack
A representative for MacMerc (http://www.macmerc.com) could not immediately be reached for comment. Apple declined to comment and Pepsi said … the company restricted the number of codes a given customer could redeem in a day.
That about sums it up for pro and con feedback on what Reuters, in the first instance, and CNET in the second, as well as lot of the other mainstream media, are calling the ‘low-tech hack‘ to get downloads offered under the appalling RIAA-Pepsi-Apple iTunes Super Sleaze promotion for free.
Well, almost for free. You still have to buy the burp-water, of course.
Anyhow, ‘Low-tech’ means you don’t need a computer. And ‘hack’ means all you have to do is stroll into your nearest convenience store, pick out a bottle of Pepsi, look up at the cap and if you see the word ‘Again,’ put it back and check out the next one.
But if you see numbers, you’re on because they represent a code you can use at Apple’s iTunes site to download a song for which you’d otherwise pay 99 cents.
However, if you’re that desperate to get an iTunes download, “MacsOnly.com had the results of a quick ’study’ they did a few days ago and it turns out it is cheaper to buy a 2 liter bottle of Pepsi at Walmart or Target, and then buy tunes from iTunes Music directly, than to pay the premium price usually commanded for those 20 oz bottles,” as a MacMerc poster says here,
And of course, you could also go to one of the non-commercial p2p file sharing sites and ….
February 22nd, 2004 at 9:15 pm
Pepsi rots your teeth and paying for mp3’s (mp3 quality is inferior to cd quality) is dumb (i don’t mean to offend those who buy mp3’s).
I think I’ll stick to drinking water and using free p2p services.
February 22nd, 2004 at 9:40 pm
damn pot smoking hippie
February 22nd, 2004 at 10:00 pm
Damn right. heh. How’s it go? If you can remember the 60s, you weren’t there?
February 22nd, 2004 at 10:54 pm
The commercial with the teen girl with weird teeth and a speech impediment speaking with a STRONG New Jersey accent is so annoying. The entire concept is so LAME. Go use Morpheus or something and download whatever you want, whenever you want and go drink Coke. It’s better that way. I do! In Canada, there’s a tax on blank media(CD-RWs, CD-Rs, DVD-RWs, DVD-Rs, etc.) and because of that tax, Canadians ARE allowed to download music off of the internet as it’s considered a “personal copy”(for personal use or as a backup copy)… provided that it’s not shared or copied and distributed. This idea ROCKS!!!!!
February 22nd, 2004 at 11:08 pm
the only problem with that is that to get it from someone else, they have to share or copy or distribute it. duh
February 25th, 2005 at 12:46 am
me gustaria conoserte pero no se donde te encuetras