iScrimination Submitted to Urban Dictionary
Growing increasingly disturbed by what I strongly believe should be an illegal distribution practice, I coined a new word and submitted it to the Urban Dictionary on this day of thanks-giving. I'm thankful for free speech even though there's apparently no room for freedom or individual choices when it comes to honestly acquiring newly released music without drinking the Apple juice.
So, for free-thinkers everywhere, I give you...
iScrimination:
A willful act of elitist discrimination against free-thinking individuals that do not own iPods or buy digital music from the iTunes store that is perpetrated when artists and record labels offer exclusive distribution rights to Apple and its subsidiaries prior to releasing the same content through all other non-Apple distributors.
Digital payola.
Etymology:
Since this practice is indeed a form of consumer discrimination, the word is derived from the intransitive verb "discriminate", meaning to treat one person or group worse than others because of prejudice or preference. By eliminating the "D", Apple's ubiquitous lower-case "i" became the first letter unequivocally linking the word to the government endorsed Apple monopoly.
Since this practice is indeed a form of consumer discrimination, the word is derived from the intransitive verb "discriminate", meaning to treat one person or group worse than others because of prejudice or preference. By eliminating the "D", Apple's ubiquitous lower-case "i" became the first letter unequivocally linking the word to the government endorsed Apple monopoly.
Example:
I could buy new "Glee" tracks the day after the episode is broadcast if it weren't for Columbia Records' iScrimination.
I could buy new "Glee" tracks the day after the episode is broadcast if it weren't for Columbia Records' iScrimination.
More to come...
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