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iTunes Hits 100 Million

shamino said:
Not necessarily. It could easily have been an automated script - everything on the page is available to a script with access to the ITMS purchase/customer database.

Not much validation is necessary - the server probably tracks and counts purchases as a part of its normal audit trail. All the script has to do is wait for a confirmed purchase with invoice no. 100,000,000 to appear, which would be a short time after the charge goes through.
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I agree it's technically possible. But they very quickly posted the winner's name and hometown on the website, posted the personalized iPod image, etc. I would think before publicizing anything, they'd need someone (if not a lawyer, someone high up) to give the go ahead.

Since Steve Jobs called the winner, I wonder if he was notified and when he called Britten—maybe last night even?
 
VL-Tone said:
One guy named Kevin Britten posted an advice about 68k Macs in one newsgroup this year. Then again, 2 years earlier another Kevin Britten (or the same?) posted a question about Xp...

Maybe he's one of the few "reverse-switcher" that went from a 68k to a Wintel PC. I guess he'll switch back now! :)
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Or someone like me who uses (and has always used) a bit of everything. Apple ][+, ][e, //c, and IIgs. Mac Plus, SE, IIci, Centris, Quadra, G3, G4. Lots of PC's based on 8088, 286, 386, 486, Pentium, PentiumPro, P-II, P-III and Athlon-64. Assorted workstations and mainframes from IBM, Sun, HP, SGI, MIPS, DG and DEC. TRS-80 model III and CoCo. Commodore-64/128, Atari 400/800/1200, TI 99/4a.

(No, I do not own all of the above. Some belonged to friends/family some belonged to my college, and some belonged to various employers. My personal collection currently consists of a Mac SE, Quadra 840av, Dual 1GHz QuickSilver G4, 486 PC, Pentium Pro PC, Athlon-64 PC, Apple //c and IIgs.)
 
ITR 81 said:
Yeah it's around 10-11pm in most European countries now. So it probably won't get updated until the following morning.
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it's the old world, and things are a bit slower over here. (Did i mention when the Music Store openend over here? Wait - not in all of Europe yet? Damn...) :)
 
bryanzak said:
They were free entries into the contest, that's all, nothing more. That's not the same thing as inflating the count of sold songs. I don't understand why people keep thinking this. Odd.
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I guess because we're just clueless idiots. Thanks for hipping us to our ODDNESS.
 
O'Brother Where Art Thou

sinisterdesign said:
my corrupt disc was the "O'Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack put out by Universal Music. it had no warning on it that it wasn't compatible w/ a Mac
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That's strange. I own that CD and have it ripped to my HD... never had any problems.
 
Adurbe said:
i think its odd that no eupoeans won anything...
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Could it be that those are only winners at the US ITMS (and therefore American) and the winners in Germany, France, and the UK will be listed soon on their respective ITMS?
Only the Grand Prize winner is listed on the French site
with a notice that the other winners will be announced soon.
 
What!!

Check out winner for song #97,700,000

They downloaded "Combat Baby" by Metric — A FREE SONG!

Whyren said:
Interestingly enough, the free Single of the Week WAS delayed a day that week, released on Wednesday instead of Tuesday (possibly because of the Independence Day Weekend)...so there's a small chance that the winner could've downloaded that song before it became the Free Single. What would the odds be of that! The only other possibility I see is that the winner may have bought that entire album and that song just happened to be the 97,700,000th song...either way, the coincidence is staggering...

Edit: and yes, "Combat Baby" by Metric was the Free Single for that week, becoming thus on July 7th.
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That's so uncool. I'm entirely embittered.

Perhaps some of the unlisted winners were "Tell A Friend" emails. In that case, I'm even more embittered. I'm just a bitter, bitter person. I gone done spent ten bucks when these people get stuff for free. Blah on them.

DrK said:
There are only 23 winners listed. The others will probably be listed on www.apple.com/uk , de and fr.
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I'd be writhing in my seat if I were in the UK. Their winners still haven't been posted!
 
jessefoxperry said:
comparing www.apple.com/itunes/100million and http://ym.muda.org/kurt/apple/hist.php (which is in eastern time) - shows that the data on apple's page is 3 hours earlier, which makes it california time. not surprising. but the only thing wrong is, how could the 100 millionth song be bought at 20:22 which is 11:22 PM EDT?? (it's 4:57 PM EDT right now). also, according to apple's page, the Metric song was dl'ed 8:23 PM EDT and i remember downloading the free single in the afternoon. strange.

oh well.
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Have any of you considered that he or she (haven't looked at the list yet) bought the song even if it was the free single? Or possibly that it was a tell a friend entry?
 
Taxes on the winnings?

Just a thought here, (and I did not read the rules too closely), but in most contests and give aways, the winner is responsible for paying taxes on the value of the prize and or winnings. I realize that he just won a PB and IP, but the value of the 10k songs is the kicker. Assuming my tax rate, he owes someone $950.

Actually, I did read the rules:
Taxes. All taxes associated with the receipt or use of the prizes are the sole responsibility of each winner. Apple reserves the right to withhold any taxes as required by applicable law. All prizes will be awarded (other than prizes withheld for tax purposes as required by applicable law) and are not transferable. No substitutions (including for cash) are permitted, but Apple reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater monetary value to the prizes if for any reason any prize cannot be awarded as contemplated in these rules.

He better get out his check book!!
 
mojohanna said:
Just a thought here, (and I did not read the rules too closely), but in most contests and give aways, the winner is responsible for paying taxes on the value of the prize and or winnings. I realize that he just won a PB and IP, but the value of the 10k songs is the kicker. Assuming my tax rate, he owes someone $950.

Actually, I did read the rules:
Taxes. All taxes associated with the receipt or use of the prizes are the sole responsibility of each winner. Apple reserves the right to withhold any taxes as required by applicable law. All prizes will be awarded (other than prizes withheld for tax purposes as required by applicable law) and are not transferable. No substitutions (including for cash) are permitted, but Apple reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater monetary value to the prizes if for any reason any prize cannot be awarded as contemplated in these rules.

He better get out his check book!!
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I don't know about you, but I have yet to pay any tax on any purchased music, nor did I have to pay tax on any music credits I had.
 
Armsreach said:
I don't know about you, but I have yet to pay any tax on any purchased music, nor did I have to pay tax on any music credits I had.
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If you buy individual songs, you dont pay sales tax. If you purchase more than one song you pay sales tax.
 
Make a playlist out of the winners winning download and you have one seriously bad playlist.

Yes. I am jealous.
 
The tuned iTunes' 100th millons!

iTMS began on April 28th, 2003.
It reaches its first 100th millions downloads in July 11th, 2004.

If you use Excel to calculate the difference in days it will give 440.

I am not a musician but this is the frecuency of one fundamental note, expressed in Hz. I think it is Fa or F (help, please!).

The tuned iTunes' 100th millons!
 
mojohanna said:
If you buy individual songs, you dont pay sales tax. If you purchase more than one song you pay sales tax.
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I'm not sure where you are, but in the US, nope. I purchased a combination of complete albums AND single songs and there was NO tax on the reciept.
 
I stand corrected. I went back and looked at some of my old receipts. No sales tax. Sorry about that, I could have sworn that I had paid sales tax. How long b4 the govt comes a calling on that one. hmm 6% tax on 99,000,000. Thats a lot of cash.
 
lmasanti said:
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If you use Excel to calculate the difference in days it will give 440.

I am not a musician but this is the frecuency of one fundamental note, expressed in Hz. I think it is Fa or F (help, please!)....]
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That's the "A" (440 Hz) above middle C on a piano.
 
mojohanna said:
I stand corrected. I went back and looked at some of my old receipts. No sales tax. Sorry about that, I could have sworn that I had paid sales tax. How long b4 the govt comes a calling on that one. hmm 6% tax on 99,000,000. Thats a lot of cash.
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How often do you pay tax on anything you buy online? I know when I buy Lancôme makeup online, it's always tax free. When I buy music at cdbaby.com and other places, it's tax free. If there isn't a store or HQ in the state you are in, isn't it tax-free when you buy it online?
 
just recently paid sales tax on a cam corder purchased on line at dell. They are in Tx, and Im in OH. The shipped from PA, so even the dist. center was not in state for me.(don't anyone shoot me, but they had the best price going). Who knows. I've also been charged tax on things purchased from MacMall etc.
 
jenniff said:
How often do you pay tax on anything you buy online? I know when I buy Lancôme makeup, it's always tax free. When I buy music at cdbaby.com and other places, it's tax free. If there isn't a store or HQ in the state you are in, isn't it tax-free when you buy it online?
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Same way here.
 
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