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Refalm

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Apple pursuing purchase of Universal Music
« on: 12 April 2003, 21:46 »
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Mercury news: In a pairing that would alter the architecture of the music business, Apple Computer is in talks with Vivendi Universal to buy Universal Music Group, the world's largest record company, for as much as $6 billion, sources said.

 
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Mercury news: Such a seemingly unlikely combination would instantly make technology guru Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder and chief executive, the most powerful player in the record industry.

 
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Mercury news: Jobs' interest in owning a music company comes at a time when the record companies believe that piracy has decimated CD sales around the world, shrinking revenue nearly 25 percent since 2000. Last year, Jobs infuriated the industry with Apple's ``rip, mix, burn'' marketing campaign, which many executives believed promoted piracy of music on Apple's computers.


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Apple pursuing purchase of Universal Music
« Reply #1 on: 13 April 2003, 02:30 »
The fine people at nomoremac.com are convinced that this is a good thing for them and that Apple will no longer be producing hardware or software because they are going to get completely into the music business. Hey, wasn't there a record company a long time ago called Apple? Hmmm coincidence?

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Apple pursuing purchase of Universal Music
« Reply #2 on: 13 April 2003, 23:25 »
HOLY SHIT!  :eek:  I just looked at nomoremac.com, and it is so maddening to look at their arguments and reasoning. What is wrong with them?

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Apple pursuing purchase of Universal Music
« Reply #3 on: 14 April 2003, 00:37 »
They are stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, idiots.

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Apple pursuing purchase of Universal Music
« Reply #4 on: 14 April 2003, 01:54 »
They have a much different attitude about all this. Where we take it seriously, they just want to joke around and make fun of things they have no idea about.