Members Phait Posted December 23, 2010 Members Share Posted December 23, 2010 http://gizmodo.com/5715946/teen-musician-uses-stolen-credit-cards-to-buy-own-itunes-songs-2000-times Okay, so it's maybe not the most efficient credit card fraud ever: a UK teen and friends upload their songs to iTunes, downloaded them 5,000 times with stolen credit cards, and reaped $773,000 in royalties. Kids! ...more at link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Guitar God Posted December 23, 2010 Members Share Posted December 23, 2010 Wow why would they do that when they can just convert youtube videos music to mp3 and have it be completely legal and free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Eddie Posted December 23, 2010 Members Share Posted December 23, 2010 Royalties seem a bit high, don't they?A typo, perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bbe Posted December 23, 2010 Members Share Posted December 23, 2010 Wow why would they do that when they can just convert youtube videos music to mp3 and have it be completely legal and free? where's the money in that though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff da Weasel Posted December 23, 2010 Members Share Posted December 23, 2010 Royalties seem a bit high, don't they?A typo, perhaps? Royalties on 5,000 iTunes singles downloads would be roughly $3,500. Even 5,000 albums would be about $35,000. I'm suspect of the entire story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author MikeRivers Posted December 23, 2010 CMS Author Share Posted December 23, 2010 a UK teen and friends upload their songs to iTunes, downloaded them 5,000 times with stolen credit cards, and reaped $773,000 in royalties. With royalties like that, I think I'll write a couple of songs and put them up on iTunes. That's $154.60 per download! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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