BTW…Thank you for bringing attention to this B.S. I can truely say I am personal friends of the band members for as much as 8 years, hanging out at shows and house parties, and have seen all of them perform legitimate “original” music with their other bands. Great guys. “Jaymz” and Dave are peaches! It makes no sense to Sony’s claims. Beatallica doesn’t earn any money. All the lyrics are changed – they are not stolen. All they want to do is be like musical-commedians. Jaymz, a good friend of mine, has spoken directly on the phone with Lars Ullrich, of Metallica. Lars has said that Metallica has no problem with Beatallica and even finds them quite funny! That is the truth.
So many big name bands even today have drawn inspiration from other musicians, that it’s just plain sick when someone thinks they can copyright a “style”. I wonder how many musicians that Sony “owns” drew inspiration from another music-company’s musicians – if so should those other music companies sue Sony for copyright infringements? Gimme a break! Should all Elvis impersonators, an understood JOKE, be sued for theft of style, material, image and money earned by Elvis’s estate? Pshaw! Should Jennifer Aniston sue anyone she sees donning her famous “Rachel” cut, her trademark? Gawd! It’s just Sony getting too big for their britches – they recently bought out BMG and the aggression-hormones are still kicking in to monopolize the music business.
People should boycott Sony.
Oh yeah – PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION!!! PRETTY PLEASE!!!

Morg

Sony, why don’t you just fade away. Face the facts, you sued your own customers and now they disappeared. Stop wasting your time, your products are no longer attractive. Even your Atrac3 player is questionable regarding patent infringement.

From http://www.mp3licensing.com

We believe that Atrac 3 uses principles like Hybrid-Filter bank, Gain Control, Huffman-Coding and Rate Loop, which means that at least a license under the following patents of Fraunhofer or Thomson is needed:

ep0287578b1 (OCF Basis: Rate Loop)
ep0612156b1 (OCF Supplement: ESC)
ep0193143b1 (Grouping of values, suppression of signal compression below thresshold)
ep0251028b1 (Masking threshold covering more than one group)
ep0277613b1 (Masking threshold in adjacent groups)