iTunes sold 1 billion songs
The number of songs downloaded from Apple’s online music store iTunes sped past one billion Thursday as a customer in Bloomfield, Mich., purchased Coldplay’s “Speed of Sound” as part of the band’s X&Y album. Apple, which was watching for the one billionth download, will give Alex Ostrovsky, the lucky downloader, a 20-inch iMac computer, 10 iPods and a $10,000 gift certificate to iTunes. “Over one billion songs have now been legally purchased and downloaded around the globe, representing a major force against music piracy and the future of music distribution as we move from CDs to the Internet,” Apple’s Steve Jobs said in a press release. In addition to the prizes Ostrovsky will take home, Apple will also establish a scholarship in his name to New York’s Juilliard School of Music.
it’s not a strike to piracy, some ppl r too retarded to know how to get to sites like this, or think that swat is gonna jump out from every angle and haul them away if they “illegally” download a song, so they just use itunes music store