Comment by rusk
14 hours ago
> Apple knew they were selling a device to play pirated music
If I’m remembering right, the tagline on the Mac mini was “rip mix burn”
14 hours ago
> Apple knew they were selling a device to play pirated music
If I’m remembering right, the tagline on the Mac mini was “rip mix burn”
Predates the Mac mini (tagline: The most affordable Mac ever.) by a good few years—predates the iPod even—but it was an Apple ad campaign:
https://youtu.be/K0ZWuhcM7t4
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Apples-Rip-Mix-Burn-camp...
You can’t really call it a pro-piracy message though. Ripping implies you have the original CD already.
> You can’t really call it a pro-piracy message though.
Of course not. That would probably infringe on advertising standards. But it is the clear implication.
It’s really not. Ripping a CD is just copying the tracks to your computer. It says & implies nothing about sharing them on Napster.