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Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by serve_yay on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:40PM (#8320575)
This was such a dumb idea. Just make the thing free, and if people want it they'll get it. Bad time to be doing anything that could be construed as "creepy", when you're getting into the payments business.

Dumb.

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Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by vidoc on Monday September 15, 2014 @03:01PM (#8320720)
If they had done that, they could have exposed U2 to very bad PR: for example if the number of actual downloads was ridiculously low :P
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Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by serve_yay on Monday September 15, 2014 @03:03PM (#8320736)
Indeed, so they took the PR hit themselves. How umm... noble.
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