Sunday, November 23, 2008
I Hate Apple!
Ok. We'll start this from the beginning. I got an iPod a while back, and my parents kinda dawdled about starting the iTunes account. I finnaly got it started yesterday, and decided to download some songs. "I know," I thought, "I'll download songs from my favorite band, The Beatles." When I searched the name of a fairly popular and well known song of theirs, it came up nothing. "That's odd," I thought, and next I searched "The Beatles." All I got was all this 'The Beatles Tribute Band' and stuff I didn't want. So I Googled it. Turnes out, theres a big ongoing lawsuit between Apple and The Beatles. I read some news story or other which I did'nt get about it, and thought it was even weirder that they sold work of all four during their solo careers, like Paul McCartney and the Wings. So I went back to Google, and got an article I could understand, in other words, one without all the legal mumbo jumbo. I then learned that the beatles owned the record label 'Apple' since 1968. When Apple formed, there was a different lawsuit. Steve Jobs ended up paying a very large settlement with The Beatles, promising that Apple would not affiliate its name with anything involving music. When iTunes was formed, understandably, The Beatles got a little upset, and conciquently have not licenced their songs for download anywhere, so, in short, I CANT PUT THE GREATEST BAND ON EARTH'S SONGS ON MY iPOD BECAUSE APPLE IS SO SUPID!
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