Beatles tracks on sale as mp3s - but is it legit?

[KiwiCoromandel]

The Beatles come to the Internet... on some site you've never heard of. But BlueBeat.com insists that its unlimited streaming and cheap downloads are legal. And the company behind it has sent cease-and-desist letters to the likes of Apple over alleged DMCA violations.

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source: Ars Technica

image: Fair Use/Ars Technica/Screengrab: BEATLES do the BLUEBEAT on the INTERNET

[KiwiCoromandel]

Website stopped from selling Beatles tracks....

London-based record label EMI has won an injunction against music website BlueBeat.com which it said was selling Beatles songs without its permission.

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source: Reuters

image: Fair Use/images.macworld.com: BLUEBEAT: BEATLES FOR SALE

[KiwiCoromandel]

BlueBeat Website Claims It Owns Copyrights to Beatles Songs....

News spread like wildfire this week that a website called BlueBeat is being sued for copyright infringement for selling and streaming Beatles songs — the first time the tunes have been available digitally.

But here’s where it gets weird: BlueBeat now claims the company owns the copyright to these songs, which the site is selling for 25 cents each, or $4.25 per album.

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source: Exclaim.ca

Here’s Bluebeat CEO Hank Risan’s opposition to EMI’s application for a restraining order to stop BlueBeat from selling the files, filed on Wednesday....

Defendants' Opposition to TRO in Capitol v. BlueBeat

A Los Angeles federal judge set aside arguments from Hank Risan, owner of BlueBeat and other companies named as defendants in the lawsuit EMI filed on Tuesday. His novel defense to allegations he was unlawfully selling the entire stereo Beatles catalog without permission was that he — and not EMI or the Beatles’ Apple Corp — owns these sound recordings, because he re-recorded new versions of the songs using what he termed “psycho-acoustic simulation.”

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image: Fair Use/wired.com: BLUEBEAT/BEATLES

[Redneck4sure]

I think BlueBeat.com is done. You can stick them with a fork to be sure but I think they are well done. I don't see them winning this one. The nerve of that company to sell a lossy copy for 25 cents a track when you can get the entire albums in lossless for free. Cyberspace, search engines and large hard drives!! Gotta love 'em!!

[KiwiCoromandel]

The nerve of that company to sell a lossy copy for 25 cents a track when you can get the entire albums in lossless for free.

cheap and nasty mate....

[Redneck4sure]

cheap and nasty mate....

Sounds like my dream date.

[KiwiCoromandel]

Technology website Techradar.com called it the "world's worst legal defence"....

[DudeAsInCool]

“"Psycho-acoustic simulation.”

[Redneck4sure]

Technology website Techradar.com called it the "world's worst legal defence"....

Their defence is almost as rediculous as Michael Moore films.