Free iTunes songs. I kid you not!

[imgonephishin]

http://autoalliance.org/safety/technology.php?CMP=PAC-print

They're having a nice little promo to raise awareness of automobile safety. Don't ask me how this relates to free iTunes codes, but it does!

It doesn't say anywhere on the page that you can't use multiple emails, and sure enough, they worked for me. Just be sure to click the "don't add to mailing list" button at the bottom.

Enjoy!

[King Cobra]

Nice stuff. It's for real, no scam! http://forums.macrumors.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

I tried it, and entered the code following the link to the Redeem code page, and I was credited for 1 song. But it doesn't expire on Sept. 30, 2004, as the automobile support site posted. My credit expires on December 7, 2004. So that gives me over 4 months to pick out a song. Nice.

[Laslo Panaflex]

Awsome!! For once in my life I am happy for my many email addresses.

Thanks for the link.

[imgonephishin]

Glad it's working out for you. Just an FYI for everyone reading: the promo mailer I received with this link on it said that the offer is good through Sept. 30 or until supplies last. I have no idea how many songs they allotted for supplies, but it won't be around for long, is my guess.

Also, interesting point King Cobra about the actual song credit being valid until December. Now I don't feel quite so rushed!

[mkrishnan]

Also, interesting point King Cobra about the actual song credit being valid until December. Now I don't feel quite so rushed!

Nice! Thanks for the find! Regarding the song validity, it works pretty much just like the Pepsi giveaway -- you register the credit and then you get a "1 song" icon up at the top of iTunes, to remind you to use your credit....

[jsw]

I think it's excellent, and am also - for once - happy for my many email addresses. However - the benefit to us aside - it seems like Apple should add in an ability to have a free tune coupon code type which would allow users to use only one coupon code from the coupon code "family" per iTunes account. So, no matter how many email accounts we have, we could only redeem one coupon per account. Yeah, you could create new accounts. But it's not really worth it to go through to get one song, whereas people could set up a range of hotmail or yahoo accounts to use to steal songs this way. I mean, it isn't technically "stealing", but, let's face it, someone's paying for those songs, and if script kiddies can get 1000 coupons with a few clicks, then these organizations will stop giving away iTunes.

So, here, autoalliance.org would purchase a block of coupons, and each iTunes account could only redeem one of them, no matter how many they garnered via multiple email accounts.

Less fun for us, but it might promote iTunes giveaways at more sites.

[imgonephishin]

Interesting thoughts, jsw. I agree with you on most of those points in the long run. It would probably be a good idea for Apple to implement that. But for now... I'll enjoy my eight songs ;-)

I'm still debating one other option. I have my own domain name which has the ability to forward all emails to one account. I could go on that site and sign up a hundred times in a hour with different addresses@myname.com. I don't know if they might get peeved at that, though. For some reason, it just doesn't feel as "right" as sending them to legitimate email addresses, despite there being very little practical difference.

Maybe I'll give other people a chance to grab some tunes for a few days and get a few more a little later.

[jsw]

For some reason, it just doesn't feel as "right" as sending them to legitimate email addresses, despite there being very little practical difference.

Yeah, feels like "stealing", although of course even the site itself doesn't say it isn't allowed. Still, it feels "wrong". Maybe I'm just feeling particularly ethical today. Odd. Well, back to my job of hunting harp seals....

[iSaint]

woo hoo! Got my 8 songs! thanks for the info!

[King Cobra]

Yeah, you could create new accounts. But it's not really worth it to go through to get one song, whereas people could set up a range of hotmail or yahoo accounts to use to steal songs this way.
Almost all of today's email services have tough anti-Spam policies, and most of them use "word verification," which cannot be deciphered easily using software. So setting up email accounts for that purpose using hacking software/more advanced scripts works for only a few email sites out there.

Luckily, I already had a whole bunch of email accounts registered during my "Wow, that's a lot of email space, but something else is going to come along with more storage" days. So I ended up with 7 working codes. It should have been 8, but one of the codes was a duplicate... I'm guessing that someone ripped me off by guessing a code. http://www.thetechpub.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/new_snipersmilie.gif

[Laslo Panaflex]

Yeah, feels like "stealing", although of course even the site itself doesn't say it isn't allowed. Still, it feels "wrong". Maybe I'm just feeling particularly ethical today. Odd. Well, back to my job of hunting harp seals....

You're only stealing the ability for other people to download free songs, not from auto alliance, becuase they have already paid for the block of coupons. It's not like they are going to be charged after the fact, for all the coupons that they have given away. Plus, how can you steal something that's free? I think most of us (myself included) feel guilty becuase it is too easy to get multiple free songs, so we go ahead and do it out of our own greed. So I tell myself the above, and I feel much better. :)

[krimson]

Nice, thanks for the info!

[kgarner]

Got my 4! Thanks for hte info.

[iLikeMyiMac]

wow thanks so much I owe you one

[Elan0204]

But it doesn't expire on Sept. 30, 2004, as the automobile support site posted. My credit expires on December 7, 2004. So that gives me over 4 months to pick out a song. Nice.

I think the redemption codes themselves expire September 30,2004. As in, if you don't enter the code they emailed you by then, the code will expire. Once you have entered the redemption code, the song credit itself doesn't expire until December 7, 2004, as you said.

[jsw]

I think most of us (myself included) feel guilty becuase it is too easy to get multiple free songs, so we go ahead and do it out of our own greed. So I tell myself the above, and I feel much better. :)

Hey, I got 5 of them. I feel a little bad, but not that bad. I won't create new accounts to get songs, but I don't feel bad with my 5. And I even looked at their site content, which was, I think, their goal.

And, yes, all we're doing is preventing others from getting songs, most of whom will try to get as many as possible anyway. Wow... I feel better already!

[Elan0204]

Hey, I got 5 of them. I feel a little bad, but not that bad. I won't create new accounts to get songs, but I don't feel bad with my 5. And I even looked at their site content, which was, I think, their goal.

And, yes, all we're doing is preventing others from getting songs, most of whom will try to get as many as possible anyway. Wow... I feel better already!

Isn't it nice that people can convice themselves of anything. :) Not that I didn't use all my email addresses to get songs too. Anyways, thanks imgonephishin for the link!

[Nermal]

I'm not in the US, and IT WORKS! :D

I had to type a fake address though.

[jsw]

I'm not in the US, and IT WORKS! :D

I had to type a fake address though.

Oh no. Kiwi's can get onto iTMS and download songs. Wasn't that one of the signs of the Apocalypse? ;)

[Nermal]

I'm still debating one other option. I have my own domain name which has the ability to forward all emails to one account. I could go on that site and sign up a hundred times in a hour with different addresses@myname.com.

It does indeed work. I stopped at 25 songs.

Oh no. Kiwi's can get onto iTMS and download songs. Wasn't that one of the signs of the Apocalypse? ;)

:eek:

[pmppk]

Promotion's over.

[Elan0204]

Promotion's over.

I had some friends that signed up yesterday, and still haven't gotten their code. I figured that meant they had run out of songs. I wonder if they will be nice enough to at least send an email saying they ran out.

[Kingsnapped]

We're sorry, the iTunes promotion is no longer running. Please take this opportunity to visit the rest of our site or sign up for our email list so you can receive updates from the Alliance.

You guys on top pwned us. Hope you feel like thieves now... :rolleyes:

[King Cobra]

I had some friends that signed up yesterday, and still haven't gotten their code. I figured that meant they had run out of songs. I wonder if they will be nice enough to at least send an email saying they ran out.
Very doubtful. I wanted to tie my Pepsi sweepstakes code record of 10 free songs, since I had 7 and managed to get an 8th one a day after the thread was posted. I tried a ninth and a tenth entry a few days before the promotion terminated, but I never got any emails with the code. Being used to not getting emails, I figured that the two email services I used blocked the email and regarded it as spam. But I guess the promotion now no longer in effect explains it.

[Nermal]

You guys on top pwned us. Hope you feel like thieves now... :rolleyes:

How can we feel like thieves by getting *free* codes? :confused:

[Abstract]

Crap, nice job. I can't believe someone signed up 25 times to get 25 free songs at the expense of an automobile website that's trying to promote safety.

Just because it's not against the law, doesn't make it any more right. If you even have to question your morals as you're doing it, then chances are that it's wrong to do it. If it was clearly moral, then you wouldn't have any of the doubts that some of you had throughout the thread.

[jsw]

Crap, nice job. I can't believe someone signed up 25 times to get 25 free songs at the expense of an automobile website that's trying to promote safety.

Just because it's not against the law, doesn't make it any more right. If you even have to question your morals as you're doing it, then chances are that it's wrong to do it. If it was clearly moral, then you wouldn't have any of the doubts that some of you had throughout the thread.

It's not only not against the law, it's not even against the site's permission. They never said one tune per user - not saying they could enforce it, but they never even mentioned it.

I felt bad because I assumed that it must be wrong. But, you know what? It wasn't. They opened up a box of free tunes, and all you needed to do was submit an email address to get one. They got a lot of traffic to their site, so they accomplished their task.

And, if they were seriously trying to promote safety instead of simply trying to get hits on their site and collect email addresses, the least they could have done is make you look through parts of the site before handing out the tune, making it not worth the dollar to keep doing it.

And if you're so upset, I assume it's because you feel that fewer people visited the site, not because you missed out on getting an iTune coupon. And, since one saw the promo as soon as one got to the site, people getting a free coupon code saw just as much - no more, no less - of the site as people who missed out.

It was a publicity thing to get eyes on the site. It worked.