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No Rock And Roll Fun: Beatles online: For now
The Daily Swarm: The Beatles Go Digital... To the Surprise of EMI, Apple, The Beatles, and Everyone Else...
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So wait, the labels want to "re-record" these songs with a new copyright? http://bit.ly/8701H)) Won't work for this guy http://bit.ly/3Sbftn 10 days ago |
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Beatles finally for sale online? #Wired http://bit.ly/1dG4cs 21 days ago |
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Bluebeat.com are flogging Beatle's songs for $0.25 a track. Get them now before they get shut down http://bit.ly/3Sbftn 22 days ago |
Beatles online: For now
No Rock And Roll Fun —
The entire Beatles back catalogue has appeared online in a proper download shop. Bluebeat are knocking the lot out for 25 cents a go. Bluebeat. You surely have heard of them? Wired is surprised, too: The idea that the various stakeholders involved with the Beatles would license an unheard-of music store to sell the band’s music at such a steep discount seems highly unlikely. After being tipped off by MusicAlly (subscription required), we’re looking into this. So far, neither BlueBeat, BlueBeat’s “partner” BaseBeat or Media Rights Technologies, which ...
Beatles Online?
Pollstar —
... We honestly don’t know, but an Apple Corp. spokeswoman told Wired she didn’t think the site had permission to sell Beatles downloads. According to Wired , a similar inquiry put to EMI has yet to elicit a response. However, the Wired article is dated Oct. 30, and the tracks are still up. Which means you can buy and download The Beatles right now on BlueBeat.com . Whether you’ll be able download the tracks tomorrow remains to be seen. Click here for BlueBeat.com . Click here to read the complete Wired article.
The Beatles Go Digital... To the Surprise of EMI, Apple, The Beatles, and Everyone Else...
The Daily Swarm —
... After buying the remastered version of Abbey Road from the site last Friday, we asked EMI and the Beatles’ label Apple Corp. whether BlueBeat, located in Santa Cruz, California, had cleared the necessary rights in order to sell the digital songs, which are not available for sale on Amazon MP3, iTunes, or elsewhere. Bluebeat is selling the songs for 25 cents per track plus a 30 cent processing fee, representing a big discount from what the songs would cost on those other services — were they available. ...
