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Enter the iTunes 500 million tune contest for free
Seems you can enter the iTunes Music Store 500 million songs contest without having to purchase any music. From the official rules: "How To Enter. You will automatically be entered into the Promotion by: 1) downloading a song from iTunes (any free downloads will be deemed an ineligible entry); or 2) a free alternative means of sending an e-mail to Apple at itunes500@apple.com via the iTunes "Tell a Friend" feature (a song download or Tell a Friend e-mail will be deemed an "Entry(ies)"). The "Tell a Friend" feature can be easily accessed at iTunes by selecting a song, and clicking the "Tell a Friend" link that is displayed for that song. One Entry will be automatically submitted for each song downloaded or Tell a Friend e-mail sent. The Promotion begins following the downloading of the 480,000,000th iTunes song, and ends with the downloading of the 500 millionth Entry ("End Date"). Only Entries submitted in this time period will be accepted."
This amounts to placing an entry by simply emailing Apple. Cheaper than $0.99 for sure (but still as much fun?).
Thanks, Scott!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
edvard said 6:26PM on 7-06-2005
Q: why do numbers in the count down on the .com and sub pages differ so greately?... anybody else noticed this?
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hellRaven said 6:31PM on 7-06-2005
How can you download the 500.000.000th song and win by sending an email to Apple?
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Tom Edwards said 6:35PM on 7-06-2005
You can do this with any competition, it's the law. Only the official Lottery can only charge to be able to be entered for a chance to win.
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Eric said 7:30PM on 7-06-2005
Tom: Yes, but the download counter doesn't move when you send an email does it? If it does, then the counter is not accurate; if it doesn't, then it is impossible to win (or two people, that is, the one who downloaded and the one who sent in an email while the download count was at 5,000,000, would win).
hmm.
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Kevin said 5:52AM on 7-07-2005
I think that if you send the email when the d/l count is at 499,999,999, then you would win and the person who buys the next song doesn't.
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Damon Law said 6:04AM on 7-08-2005
We've thrown together a little widget that makes this pretty easy:
http://writteninashes.com/downloads/TAF_iTunes_Countdown.zip
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Libb said 11:54AM on 7-11-2005
I think that sending the e-mail actually triggers that system to buy a random song to enter you. Thus, it would keep the counter working correctly, but that's some serious inflation of sales if this trick becomes big...
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