News McDonalds Billion song iTunes giveaway?

This from the New York Post, via iPodlounge:

November 6, 2003 -- Ronald McDonald is stealing Pepsi's thunder.

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.

Full report here

"...Do you want MP3's with that?"

 

Looks like Apple could really have the other music download companies on the hop

 

wow thats 1.1 bill in all, at 99c each

thats about 1 billion notes for Apple in a week or two :|

 

thats like apple getting free publicity from other companys, dam those guys are smart at apple... cause people will at least try out itunes to get there free song if they havn't already got it, and if they like it they'll keep it.... and use it...

 

Not only that, but it'll introduce so many 'slightly less computer literate' users to the MP3 music market, and that will dramatically increase apples user base.

What I want to know is? Why all of the sudden do Pepsi and McDonalds have the itchy cajones to do this at the same time?

 

It's all a hoax. They just had a snippet about it on TechTV and it was defined as "pure speculation". Sorry to burst your bubble there.