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- inactive, on 12/01/2007, -1/+71For a second I thought they were going to partner with The Pirate Bay.
- Lax32, on 12/01/2007, -0/+38In other news, the Pirate Bay has decided to give away one kazillion free MP3s in the "Because We Can" promotion.
- backwoodsbob, on 12/01/2007, -3/+36Now we get closer to the true value of an MP3 to the industry. About $.70, at least that is their take.The actual value is much less. So where do they get off asking the courts for $750.00 and up for compensation from file downloaders? Sounds like someone got some 'splainin' to do.
- unloud, on 12/01/2007, -2/+29Hmm... this type of promotion is so original.... Nobody has ever teamed up with a soda company to sell digital music before.
/s - NickMilne, on 12/01/2007, -0/+25*opens BitTorrent client*
*drinks Coke* - MarkDykeman, on 12/01/2007, -1/+18glad you mentioned that Pepsi was a co-sponsor; you need to buy 5 Pepsi products to get one MP3
- r81984, on 12/01/2007, -0/+14Who hasn't given away a billion free mp3s?
- Ramble, on 12/01/2007, -1/+145 Pepsi products? What a ***** rip, that's like £5 here in the UK for one free MP3, yea ***** right. One Pepsi product is dangerously close to the line, 5 is just stupid. I doubt anyone is going to buy 5 billion pepsi products.
- derekivey, on 12/01/2007, -1/+13Buried as inaccurate. You have to buy 5 pepsi products!
- timdorr, on 12/01/2007, -0/+11Actually, that's how they're going to do it. Rather than giving away the songs directly, they're just going to put up a link on the screen to http://thepiratebay.org/browse/101
- aspec, on 12/01/2007, -0/+10Their explanation is that by making the song available to others, it's not just the amount of people who download from you, it's also the amount of sales you circumvent, and that if people believe they can get the songs for free, they simply wont buy the song, whether or not they actually download it. They believe that for every song you share, you're preventing $750 in CD sales, which is ***** retarded. Then again, these people don't know how to check their email outside of their office, so what do you expect? They're a dying breed who didn't save for retirement.
- themoosejuice, on 12/01/2007, -0/+9ITS GOING TO BOMB!
1. Required to buy 5 Pepsi
2. Then you get 5 codes, dont loose em.
3. You gotta enter all of them at amazon.
4. Search for the "one" song to redeem for free
In the end, Amazon looks like a total chump for making you go through all that. Pepsi looks like a chump as well. When you make contests like this so complicated, you just create hatred toward your brand, not loyalty. So what you get in short term sales, you actually loose out in the long run.
The Apple/Pepsi promotion was VERY good. Almost every pepsi I opened had a code, I just punched it into itunes and got a credit. Made me happy to buy a pepsi and i felt happy about the whole contest. - EntropyFan, on 12/01/2007, -2/+11The original part is they aren't giving away low bit rate, DRM laced crap.
I for one applaud the attempt - Xelseragoth, on 12/01/2007, -0/+8Amazon's MP3s (at least the ones I have looked into) are 256kbps DRM free.
- MacGyver2210, on 12/01/2007, -0/+8Maybe you haven't heard, but the world isn't speaking with Linux right now. Even though it's getting pretty popular, it's still grounded and can't come out to play.
- 3dprototype, on 12/01/2007, -2/+9Free ain't "free" if you have to purchase something to get it. Marketing lies!
- spidoman, on 12/01/2007, -0/+7Oh...not to each person? Shouldn't have gotten my hopes up.
- tortfeasor, on 12/01/2007, -0/+6"Unfortunately, of course there's a gimmick in the 1 billion song promotion - you'll have to buy 5 Pepsi products to get 5 codes for each MP3. According to a great summary of the news at PaidContent, a similar Pepsi promotion for iTunes that aimed to give away 100 million songs in 2004 only saw 5 million people participate."
- lrdntwnd, on 12/01/2007, -0/+6When Pepsi teamed up with Apple, it was just a straight-up free iTunes download. I think 1 in 3 bottles had one. It was a great promotion. I wish they were doing that again...
- hippykiller, on 12/01/2007, -0/+5A free mp3 for buying a minimum of $5.00 worth of Pepsi products. That does not seem like such a great deal to me. Just buy an mp3 and skip the Pepsi.
- MacGyver2210, on 12/01/2007, -0/+5"sources are telling Billboard that Amazon and Pepsi will team up to give away 1 billion MP3s for free in 2008"
Straight up. If you have to buy a bunch of pepsi ***** first, these aren't free. - Amorn, on 12/01/2007, -0/+5Free MP3? Isn't it always free?
- Xelseragoth, on 12/01/2007, -0/+4I got 19 free songs out of that one. It helps going to a college that only carries Pepsi products, and other people giving me their caps.
- inactive, on 12/01/2007, -0/+4Prince is freaking out as we speak.
- chrisutley, on 12/01/2007, -0/+4Momma-mia, I'm-a gonna need one hell of a big iPod, no!?
- NewOntario, on 12/01/2007, -0/+4I couldn't agree more. For the price of five bottles of Pepsi, I could legally buy five songs of iTunes. Or for the price of zero bottles of Pepsi, I could get as many songs as I want.
- badenglishihave, on 12/01/2007, -3/+6Word has it Janet Jackson will be making an appearance on Amazon midway through the giveaway.
- bjornski, on 12/01/2007, -0/+3He should be more upset that out of those billion files, none will be his.
He's becoming more irrelevant every day. - opnotic, on 12/01/2007, -0/+2Best!
- ThunkDifferent, on 12/01/2007, -1/+3Can i get the Superbowl shuffle? i like that song & i'd like to hear like, a billion times
- sevenalive, on 12/02/2007, -0/+2I remember they even had that girl in the commerical, she was the first one to get busted for downloading
- reed311, on 12/01/2007, -0/+2It's free because the price of a Pepsi is not raised in order to compensate. You are still getting the Pepsi product you normally would, but you also get an mp3; hence the mp3 is free.
- inactive, on 12/01/2007, -0/+2If it was 1 in 3 bottles that had one, it was NOT a "straight up free download"
- rcd19, on 12/02/2007, -0/+2am i the only one that thout they were giving away a billion mp3 players
- inactive, on 12/01/2007, -2/+3As opposed to what ... some 320kbps lossless MP3s? /crickets
- EasY_TargeT, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1/join
- sevenalive, on 12/02/2007, -0/+1The pirate bay is way overrated. I rather have demonoid back! then torrentspy! At least with demonoid there was no crap since it was a private tracker, and torrentspy has the best torrents and comments too. I think mininova is better then the pirate bay
- freekye, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1So, if hippy's post means he hates soda then yours must meant you LOVE it.......admit it you rub pepsi on your ***** while you think of amazon dont you. Youre a ***** prick *****. Kill yourself with a torn soda can and do the world a favor.
- halcyon626, on 12/02/2007, -0/+1Unfortunately its one billion copies of "Never Gonna Give You Up."
- Gemfinder, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1Word. I thought, "One human in six, worldwide? No way. China couldn't fill that order if all they made were MP3 players, 24-7-365."
- suinmind, on 12/02/2007, -0/+1Why don't they spend the money for the amount of ink used to print 5,000,000,000 codes to give away free (really free) songs?
Most of the time, the advertisers are too greedy to think of something really effective. - bjornski, on 12/01/2007, -1/+2After seeing her floppy meat-bag last time, that's reason enough to avoid this.
- inactive, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1Do you honestly think that the general public perception of Pepsi and Amazon over this will be that they are "chumps"?
They are giving you something that you may choose (even though choose rhymes with LOSE, but is not spelled similarly, by the way) to do, or not. The price of buying a Pepsi is not increasing because of it. So for the people who choose to do it, it is a good deal. - inactive, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1The only catch is they are giving them all away to one lucky winner.
- inactive, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1Because...moron...no one has EVER been sued for downloading music. Not one single person.
- bjornski, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1There are ads on the internet?
My blockers beg to differ. AdBlock isn't enough for me. I also registered Ad Muncher (which kicks serious ass).
I just refuse to do business with pro-GOP donating Amazon. - inactive, on 12/01/2007, -1/+2So? You spend your entire day on the advertising laden pages of Digg.com, and get absolutely nothing out of it, except maybe a decrease in IQ from reading all the crap.
- bjornski, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1And that's why I don't buy from iTunes.
- inactive, on 12/01/2007, -1/+2You have to give Apple the same "information that you don't want o give out" to buy from iTunes.
- Gemfinder, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1Aigh!! Millions of gallons of high fructose corn syrup entering the foodstream for the sake of music! As if this country wasn't obese enough!
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