Bluebeat stopped from selling almost all Beatles downloads
A judge stops back catalogue sales of old (popular) Beatles tracks - and we have more information about the company behind the seller, BluebeatBluebeat suddenly has far fewer Beatles tracks for downloadA judge has ordered Bluebeat, the US website that had been selling the Beatles' entire discography for digital download - and which justified its doing so on the basis that the tracks were "re-recorded" using "psycho-acoustic simulation" - to stop selling the tracks at once.According to Wired.com,...
Rolling Stone — EMI has won a temporary injunction against BlueBeat, the digital-music vendor selling Beatles tracks without permission. According to Billboard, a temporary restraining o... more info
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Guardian Music — A judge stops back catalogue sales of old (popular) Beatles tracks - and we have more information about the company behind the seller, BluebeatBluebeat suddenly has far f... more info
Reuters — LONDON (Reuters) - 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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L.A. Times - Entertainment — Capitol Records this week filed a suit against BlueBeat, which says that songs produced by digital regeneration are akin to songs performed by cover bands and do not run ... more info
The Independent — US online music service Bluebeat on Friday said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs. more info
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Songs by The Beatles have been pulled from the internet after record label bosses at EMI won a temporary injunction against a US website for a... more info
Mercury News, California — LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has temporarily blocked two music-sharing Web sites from selling songs by The Beatles and other artists for 25 cents apiece. more info