Apple plays Big Brother
Written by Brian Flemming
Published February 02, 2004
Published February 02, 2004
I hate it when Apple makes me hate Apple.
Tune Recycler, a site where you can give away your Pepsi iTunes codes to help indie artists, puts it well:
Pepsi has begun airing an ad for this [iTunes giveaway] promotion that features 16 of the children who were sued by the major record labels for filesharing. It's a perfect cycle: now that these kids and their families have been put in debt by the major labels, they have to sell themselves in a soda commercial to make back some of what they owe.
I made a movie about it...

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The revised slogans I've always used are:
War Is Peace
Freedom Is Slavery
Music Is Entertainment
and speaking of the memory hole:
Also from the mid-80s -- Remember, Home Taping Is Killing The Music Business (and it's fun!)