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> 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:

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.

Okay bro.