Apple/Pepsi Superbowl ad

[andychrist]

I think Andrew Orlowski may be a bit over the top but I must confess that this ad leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35259.html

I'd like to see artists fairly compensated for their endeavors but RIAA just gets up my nose, and I don't feel good about Apple's participation in this exercise in humiliation... even if they did help pay off the kids' legal bills.

[btoth]

It sure didn't look like they were reinacting their "shame" to me. I'm sure they thought it was cool to be a commercial about downloading free music "legally". And if they were paid, either directly or by paying and legal fees, etc, they were rewarded for stealing music in the past.