Apple releases U2 album removal tool

Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by freehunter on Monday September 15, 2014 @04:00PM (#8321111)

But it's a record with a huge asterisk, like Major League Baseball records of players using steroids. If buying your own album in order to get it into the charts is legitimate, I'm a millionaire because I pay myself thousands of dollars per minute.

(some of those dollars may be the same ones over and over again)

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Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by smackfu on Monday September 15, 2014 @04:22PM (#8321255)

Yeah, another way to game the system is to include your album with concert ticket sales. That counts as a sale officially, but you probably aren't losing many "real" sales since your fans probably have the album already.

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Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by icebraining on Monday September 15, 2014 @04:35PM (#8321346)

Well, according to the news, Apple paid $100 million for the rights of "giving away" those copies.

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Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by vacri on Monday September 15, 2014 @05:10PM (#8321551)

You are, of course, paying income tax on your salary? :)

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