News Amazon glitch offers unlimited free music

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2009/03/12/amazon-glitch-offers-unlimited-free-music/1

A glitch in an Amazon offer of £3 off purchases on its MP3 Store over Xmas lead to some customers being able to download as much music as they wanted, free of charge.

 

Bum, heard about this three months too late!

 

To be honest they have every right in this circumstance to claim the money back as the users who repeatedly did this would most likely be fully aware of what they were doing.

Obviously the media would jump of this and Amazon would be seen in a bad light so I think they will take the loss as long as it is not too large. They might even get some more people signing up in hope of a repeat incident

 

oops lol

Not me, i buy real discs

 

You mean people actually buy music...

 

yup, me and mike^^^
I always buy CDs still as well, not sure why, I think I just like having an actual object for my money, on the other hand I've spent loads on Steam.

 

I don't think there is £300 worth of music i'd want.

 

I always buy the CD too.

 

yeah where the hell do you find that much music to listen to? most of it sucks

 

Good music is available only on CDs and in Magnatune, rest is just mainstream crap. 300 pounds? How unprofessional. In such case I'd put together a quick script giving me 30000 pounds per hour, publish it, download a few gigs of music and put it on TPB. Just because I am spiteful and feel disgusted by music industry (not the music or musicians, just the industry forcing 800% profit margins, annoying people with DRM and doing all the crap).