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Website selling illegal Beatles tracks ordered to pay $1m

Bluebeat.com claimed tracks it was selling for 16p were not Beatles songs but 'psycho-acoustic simulations'A website that illicitly sold Beatles downloads in 2009 has been ordered to pay almost $1m to rights holders. Bluebeat.com claimed it was circumnavigating copyright law by offering "psycho-acoustic simulations" of music by the Fab Four and other acts including Coldplay and Radiohead.About two years ago, California-based Bluebeat began selling Beatles downloads for just 25 cents (16p) – le...

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20:41 on March 28 2011

Web site to pay $950,000 for Beatles piracy

Reuters — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The owners of a California Web site that sold Beatles songs for 25 cents each before they went on sale legally through iTunes have agreed to pay t... more info

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05:50 on March 29 2011

BlueBeat.com owner fined $1 million for selling Beatles songs

NME — Site had sold songs for 25 cents each more info

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07:23 on March 29 2011

Beatles - Website Bosses To Pay $1 Million For Illegally Selling Beatles Songs

ContactMusic — Website chiefs who illegally sold songs by the Beatles over the internet have agreed to pay almost $1 million (625,000) to record companies after reaching a settlement, C... more info

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10:16 on March 29 2011

Website selling illegal Beatles tracks ordered to pay $1m

Guardian Music — Bluebeat.com claimed tracks it was selling for 16p were not Beatles songs but 'psycho-acoustic simulations'A website that illicitly sold Beatles downloads in 2009 has bee... more info

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