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How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by whizzter »

netsharc wrote: post #6

Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too). This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actuall…

Because it auto-played when you didn't want to.

If you had Spotify running and then pressed the quick-play on your phones it would continue where it was, but after a reboot the iPhone would auto-play from Apple Music instead if Spotify hadn't been started.

So tapping play on your headphones would start those damn U2 songs "by accident" because it's the only thing that was on the Apple Music accounts we aren't using.. yeah no thanks.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by 1123581321 »

Always enjoy Raymond Chen's musings.

My sister and I were so excited to discover this on the CD as we were clicking through every folder. Awesome song that kicked off a love of the blue album, Pinkerton and the green album. (I had off-campus lunch privileges, so was sent to Borders to pick up copies of the green album on release day.)

We'd heard of Happy Days, but we didn't know if the show was like it was portrayed in the video. We may have thought the band was from Wisconsin. I don't think either of us ever became Happy Days fans.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by Brian_K_White »

netsharc wrote: post #6

Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too). This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actuall…

Sony wasted several gigs of the very small (32g to 120g) and very expensive ssds of the time with 2 copies of a Spider Man 3 movie pre-loaded onto several different laptops. One copy in the normal installed fs, another copy in the recovery partition.

And you couldn't even watch the movie unless you also paid to unlock it.

You could delete the normal copy if you even knew it was there and then also used a disk usage util to FIND the actual file. But you couldn't do anything about the copy in the recovery image except delete the recovery partition and basically wipe & repartition the drive and do your own fresh install.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by wk_end »

netsharc wrote: post #6

Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too). This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actuall…

The perception was: my iTunes library is mine, and it's invasive for Apple to put something in there without my permission.

Whereas: the Windows 95 CD is Microsoft's, Microsoft is free to put what they want on there. I bet most people who weren't nerds or curious kids never even found it!

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by Hatrix »

netsharc wrote: post #6

Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too). This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actuall…

There was something about iTunes at that time where every time I started my car it would connect to my phone and start playing that U2 album regardless of what I had been listening to earlier. It just would not go away.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by kej »

llm_nerd wrote: post #9
netsharc wrote: post #6

Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too). This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actuall…

It was much worse than just adding it to your library as a gift. The cover art for the album[1] would appear in seemingly random places on your phone. And there was literally zero way to remove it, until there was such an uproar that Apple had to make a special tool. Apple spent money on this and they really, really wanted to force feed it to every Apple user (not unlike their F1 movie venture). It was incredibly obn…

... It's a father trying to protect his son from the world's dangers. Not every picture of two men is sexual.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by bigfishrunning »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #5
kyleee wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any way to make this submission even less interesting? Perhaps we can speculate about parts being written by AI. Did you see any em dashes?

It's just a journal style entry, its not bad that its boring, but its so bland. It will become LLM fodder I'm sure.

We all will. Ashes to ashes.
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