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Streaming Beatles Tunes For Free? MP3s For 25 Cents? Who The Heck Is BlueBeat.com?
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily —
... The Telegraph reports that EMI and Apple Corps, which control the rights to the Beatles music, have not given permission for the tracks to be sold, and that they were looking into the situation. The story says the site is offering over 500 Beatles tracks. BlueBeat is a unit of a company called Media Rights Technologies, which is based in Santa Cruz, California. Media Rights says on its Web site that it offers “content distribution-enabling solutions for DVDs, CDs, streaming media and downloadable digital media products.” ...
Beatles For Sale—for 25¢ a track. But is it legal?
Ars Technica —
... by BlueBeat.com, which on October 30 began streaming unlimited plays from The Beatles' catalog (including the new remastered albums) and selling tracks for a quarter each. It's at this point that you're probably asking yourself, "Self, who exactly is behind BlueBeat.com? I've never heard of it." It's true that BlueBeat.com is not well known as a music streaming destination, but you might know more than you suspect about the company behind it; Media Rights Technologies made waves back in 2007 when it ...
You Knew This Would Happen: EMI Sues BlueBeat.com For Selling Beatles Albums
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily —
Well, that was inevitable.
EMI has filed suit against BlueBeat.com, BaseBeat Inc. and parent Media Rights Technologies for copyright infringement, Wired.com reports. That’s not a big surprise: as I noted earlier this week, BlueBeat has been selling tracks from the Beatles (among a wide range of other bands) for 25 cents a song, and providing free streaming of almost any album you can imagine. The Beatles albums to date have not been made available to any online music ...
Firefox Races Past Aging IE6, Is the Universe Beige?
Switched —
... . Record giant EMI now wants a judge to decide, so it's filing suit against Bluebeat (owned by Media Rights Technologies) for copyright infringement. [From: ...
