EMI boots Bluebeat off the net
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- EMI Music has blocked Bluebeat.com from selling Beatles tunes online — for the moment, anyway.
As a p2pnet reader kindly pointed out yesterday, “The songs are 25c a piece, 30c processing charge PER ORDER.
“So if you only buy one mp3 its 55c, but if you buy 100 songs its $25.30.”
But that would now be ‘were’ 25c a piece because EMI has won a temporary restraining order effective immediately, and valid until November 20 when arguments will be heard from both sides in a court hearing, says Billboard, going on:
“The service’s owner, Hank Risan, claims he doesn’t need to license the music as the service is using re-recorded versions of the songs using a technology called “psycho-acoustic simulation” and obtained new copyrights as a result.”
At 7:40 am Pacific, Bluebeat was still offering what seems to be the full range of Beatles tunes, said p2pnet, going on:
“Not only but also, it’s continuing to stream Beatles albums, including the new remastered versions, for free.”
However it was offline at 10:45 amp Pacific today.
“This doesn’t, of course, make any kind of difference to the online availability of songs from the Fab Four,” we oted.
“They’ve been downloadable from the various P2P networks since the year dot.”
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Billboard – EMI Wins Temporary Injunction Against BlueBeat, November 5, 2009
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November 6th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Here’s A Quarter, Sue Someone Who Cares!
November 6th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Nice to see that our resident EMI troll is still alive and well.
November 6th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
“psycho-acoustic simulation”
This is kind of funny, actually! If you read up on it just a little, you find out that
it is pretty much the same effect you create when you rip CD to mp3 format.
The software actually determines which range of tone is irrelavent to human ears
and cuts it out, allowing for the huge amount of compression you get from the conversion.
Now, as to whether it makes a real defence for these Blue/beat folks……………
my advice would be, dont hold your breath!