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Macworld: BlueBeat sells Beatles MP3s, permission be damned
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily: Streaming Beatles Tunes For Free? MP3s For 25 Cents? Who The Heck Is BlueBeat.com?
T3.com All: The Beatles' digital downloads available online thanks to BlueBeat
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http://bluebeat.com/ ya no podrá vender música de los Beatles, adiós descargas!!! http://tiny.cc/en0J8 11/6/2009 |
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Grab 'em while you can: EMI sues http://bluebeat.com over 25c Beatles tunes http://bit.ly/2krOOU 11/5/2009 |
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Still looking for the Beatles' Catalog? Check out http://bluebeat.com/ before the RIAA raids their servers. Seriously. $4 an album. 11/5/2009 |
BlueBeat sells Beatles MP3s, permission be damned
Macworld —
... Perhaps you’re heard the expression “shoot first, ask questions later?” That pretty well sums up the philisophy of Santa Cruz, Calif.-based BlueBeat . First off, the company has started selling MP3 music downloads for the low low price of 25 cents a track. In case you’ve been living under a rock, that’s a heck of a lot less than the ...
Streaming Beatles Tunes For Free? MP3s For 25 Cents? Who The Heck Is BlueBeat.com?
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily —
Send lawyers, guns and money.
Well, this can’t possibly last.
As the U.K.-based Telegraph notes today, a web site called BlueBeat.com is offering MP3 tracks at a measly 25 cents apiece - including what appears to be the entire catalog from ...
The Beatles' digital downloads available online thanks to BlueBeat
T3.com All —
... free. However, it s unclear whether EMI and Apple Corps have actually given the site permission to sell the Fab Four s hits. Last night, speaking to the Telegraph, a spokesperson for EMI said that the company had not given BlueBeat.com permission to sell the tracks and that they would be looking into the matter. Despite this, it s still possible to buy a digital copy of Abbey Road now for just $4.25 ( 2.60), five times cheaper than the price of a typical iTunes album. Link : BlueBeat.com (via the ...
The Beatles' digital downloads available online thanks to BlueBeat
T3.com News —
... permission to sell the Fab Four’s hits.
Last night, speaking to the Telegraph, a spokesperson for EMI said that the company had not given BlueBeat.com permission to sell the tracks and that they would be “looking into” the matter.
Despite this, it’s still possible to buy a digital copy of Abbey Road now for just $4.25 (£2.60), five times cheaper than the price of a typical iTunes album.
Link: BlueBeat.com (via the Telegraph)
Sort your bitrates ...
EMI sues Beatles 25 cent download site
TG Daily - All News —
Record company dinosaur EMI has woken from its slumbers and set its lawyers on a US website offering 25 cent downloads of Beatles tracks. EMI says Bluebeat.com is not authorised to sell Beatles content including the entire remastered content released in September. Bluebeat also offers streaming content enabling fans to listen to tracks for free. Sir Paul McCartney was quoted 12 months ago as saying he wanted the Beatles' material to be available online, but that "EMI want something we're not prepared to give 'em. It's between EMI and The Beatles I think - what else is new? " [image] EMI said it had been ...
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 services.
For now, at least, ...
Defiant Site Continues to Jack Beatles
ZiggyTek Blog —
So I posted yesterday about how The Beatles are putting their entire record library onto an apple shaped USB for $279. As I was navigating the blogosphere, I saw Wired’s article about BlueBeat.com, a previously unknown music site that has been selling The Fab Four’s tuneage without their permission. As I read it, a line from Jay-Z’s “Friend or Foe 98″ kept playing in my head: “But I was like “Nah”, Homes had to know he was wrong. And if you caught me on the foul know you would sing me the same song.” ...
Meet the Beatles... re-recording? Bluebeat claims its downloads are legal
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
A US company is offering digital downloads of the Beatles' music, the first in the world, putting it in the crosshairs of a lawsuit by EMI The Beatles songs are available for digital download, apparently legitimately. You have to go to an American site called Bluebeat which has possibly ...
Beatles download site told to cease and desist
TG Daily - All News —
Music behemoth EMI has won a preliminary victory in its fight to block a download site offering the entire Beatles' back catalogue for download at 25 cents a track. Bluebeat.com ...
Judge Orders BlueBeat.com To Pull Down Beatles Songs, Other Music; The Psycho-Acoustic Simulation Defense
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily —
... You should not be surprised to learn that a federal judge yesterday ordered BlueBeat.com to immediately stop selling Beatles songs and other music from its site, rejecting a goofy assertion that it the company had copyrights on the songs via something called “psycho-acoustic simulation.” The company had been ...
Judge Orders The Beatles Off BlueBeat
Digital Trends —
BlueBeat logo Sometimes courts move swiftly: a judge has ordered BlueBeat.com take down Beatles and other EMI artists from its site pending a hearing. A federal judge has ordered BlueBeat.com stop selling tracks from The Beatles and other EMI artists pending a hearing in EMI’s copyright infringement lawsuit against the site and its parent company, Media Rights Technologies. EMI filed suit against BlueBeat earlier this week, claiming the company had no right to offer music from the Beatles and other EMI artists online The Beatles in particular have famously withheld their material from ...
Beatles ban takes effect at BlueBeat
Macworld —
by Jacqueline Emigh , PC World In a contentious court battle launched by record label EMI, the brazen owner of online retailer BlueBeat has begun complying with a new court order to stop selling Beatles music online , after offering a quirky defense that he owns the copyright to the songs at issue. In a message sent from his iPhone earlier this week, BlueBeat owner Hank Risan told his attorney that he -- rather than EMI or Apple Corps—is the rightful owner of the Beatles tunes for sale on his Web site, according to a report in paidContent.org . Risan ...
EMI wins as Beatles catalogue removed from download site
T3.com All —
Home News EMI Wins As Beatles Catalogue Removed From Download Site EMI wins as Beatles catalogue removed from download site Posted by Chris Smith on Fri 6 Nov 2009 BlueBeat's wander down 15-Penny Lane is ended by EMI. Beatles fans are singing "Hello, Goodbye" with a little more gusto tonight after the first digital availability of the Fab Four's back catalogue was hastily ended by a lawsuit against download site BlueBeat . EMI, the record label still in possession of John, Paul, George and Ringo's collaborative work, swiftly issued a writ against the site this week, which was ...
EMI wins as Beatles catalogue removed from download site
T3.com News —
Beatles fans are singing "Hello, Goodbye" with a little more gusto tonight after the first digital availability of the Fab Four's back catalogue was hastily ended by a lawsuit against download site BlueBeat.
EMI, the record label still in possession of John, Paul, George and Ringo's collaborative work, swiftly issued a writ against the site this week, which was selling tracks for a mere 15 pence and allowing registered users to stream the songs for free.
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Hank Risan on BlueBeat's $20 Million Gamble...on 25-Cent Beatles Tracks?
Fast Company - Technology —
Bluebeat founder Hank Risan says he sank $20 million into an effort to revolutionize digital music delivery. But he flushed it all the day he offered Beatles tracks for a quarter a pop, a judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge John F. Walter issued a preliminary injunction against BlueBeat.com and Basebeat.com, handing a victory to music company EMI Group, which sued Risan and his companies recently. Risan is now banned from streaming or selling songs on BlueBeat by the Beatles and other longtime digital holdouts such ...
