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Overhype

by Mike Masnick




Pepsi Ad Uses Kids Sued By The RIAA

from the interesting... dept

Well, we're approaching Super Bowl time, and I'm seeing plenty of articles (as always) about all the funky Super Bowl ads that people are preparing. However, Pepsi has put together one of the odder ones. As part of their promotion to give away iTunes songs, they've put together an ad showing a bunch of kids that have been sued by the RIAA for file sharing, and had them say "we're still going to download for free!" - thanks to Pepsi's limited time iTunes promotion, of course.

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  1. Jan 23rd, 2004 @ 10:47am

    No Subject Given

    by Anonymous Coward

    Your title implies that the *ad* was sued by the RIAA.

    "Pepsi ad uses kids sued by RIAA " is what you meant.

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  2. Jan 23rd, 2004 @ 12:47pm

    Re: No Subject Given

    by Javaguy

    Made perfect sense to me.

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  3. Jan 23rd, 2004 @ 4:07pm

    Re: No Subject Given

    "Pepsi ad uses kids sued by RIAA " is what you meant.

    Yeah, that's much better. Thanks, I've changed it.

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  4. Jan 23rd, 2004 @ 4:26pm

    Re: No Subject Given

    by Anonymous Coward

    Excellent, Mike -- it was a dangling participle.

    Javaguy should visit:
    http://trc.ucdavis.edu/bajaffee/SAS90B/Course%20Content/Grammar%20Syllabus/dangling.htm

    to understand why it shouldn't sound right

    (reply to this comment) (link to this comment)

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