With the second Pepsi-iTunes contest under way, iTunes fans have again discovered how to tilt the odds in their favor.

The contest gives those buying specially marked bottles a 1 in 3 chance of winning a free song download by discovering a special message printed on the underside of the cap. However, as was the case last time, enterprising music fans can sidestep the element of chance by way of a low-tech “hack.”

They can simply hold a bottle up at just the right angle and see either “Free Song” or “Please play again.”

“You’d think they would have learned the first time around not to put the codes under the cap,” Toledo, Ohio-based blogger Rick Reed said in a recent posting. “Let the tilting begin.”

But it would be difficult to fill an iPod at Pepsi’s expense–the soda maker is limiting the amount of free codes one person can redeem to 10 per day and 200 over the life of the contest, which runs through May. Also, unless people want to be really dishonest, they have to buy the 20-ounce bottle, which typically fetches at least the 99 cents they’d pay for a track on iTunes.

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Filed under: Apple - @ February 11, 2005 10:58 am