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22 December, 2004

Infinifree iTunes

I'm in a bit of an ethical quandry lately. I discovered a way to get virtually unlimited iTunes for free. It's perfectly legal, and there's no hitches that I can tell. All I have to do is sign up for a new PayPal account with one of my many credit cards, and then sign up for a new iTunes account and link it to the PayPal account. I get five free songs every time I do this: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/general/UsePaypalOnITunes-outside I can sign up for multiple iTunes accounts (all I need is a new email, and I can set up infinite forwarders from my giveministry.org server) and participate in this offer multiple times. I can also close PayPal accounts in about five seconds and sign up for a new one with the same credit card, which allows me to participate innumerable times. It's obvously not the intention of the offer, and it is definitely taking advantage of a loophole in the Terms and Conditions (i.e. "Maximum of one (1) offer per Eligible Participant per iTunes account"). Not "one offer per eligible participant", but "per eligible participant per iTunes account". So it's like this, a business is giving away free songs. They are only giving away 2,500,000 songs total, 5 per person. Through some ingenuity, I can get as many as I want. But every time I take more than my share, I keep someone else from signing up for PayPal, and if I do this a lot, PayPal will loose a little business on account of me. Not only that, I'm taking away the opportunity from some people to get free songs. So, what to do. I've contacted Apple and PayPal to ask them if what I'm doing is okay by them, or if they will shut me down. No answer thus far. What's the right thing to do? I don't know, but I'm open to opinions. I really want lots of free songs, of course, but I'm predisposed to believe this is wrong, simply because my motive is selfish, and it could end up harming another, or at least a business. Maybe I'll just use it to get my top 100 wish list songs. That wouldn't have much of an impact amongst 2,500,000 available songs, but I could save a lot of money on music. What would you do?

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