corbin@infosec.pub to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days agoThat time Apple sent everyone a U2 album: 'I DONT WANT YOU.'www.spacebar.newsexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squaremyplacedk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·23 days agoTo me, “free album” is like a person handing out free CD’s on a busy sidewalk. This is more like my landlord going into my living room and putting a CD on my shelf. (Now someone will tell me about how my analogy is flawed, I don’t care, that’s how analogies work. It’s not the same, it’s an analogy.)
minus-squaretrack_stick_baboon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·23 days agoAnd then your landlord forbids you to remove the CD from your shelf.
To me, “free album” is like a person handing out free CD’s on a busy sidewalk.
This is more like my landlord going into my living room and putting a CD on my shelf.
(Now someone will tell me about how my analogy is flawed, I don’t care, that’s how analogies work. It’s not the same, it’s an analogy.)
And then your landlord forbids you to remove the CD from your shelf.