Led Zeppelin Agrees To Digital Distribution

cphilo points out a NYTimes article on Led Zeppelin's decision to sell its music online. The group is one of the last superstar acts to hold out against the digital tide. There was a months-long, trans-Atlantic bidding war for the rights to license the band's catalog. In the US, the only digital holdouts that outsell Led Zeppelin are the Beatles and Garth Brooks.

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Re:slashdot is dying

[Anonymous Coward]

Blame the green.

Typical.

AC/DC

[Hao Wu]

No AC/DC on iTunes, last time I checked.

(I check several times each day.)

Heh, n00bs...

[Ethanol-fueled]

The true Led Zap fans rip their vinyls to Mp3 :)

Re:Heh, n00bs...

[Brian Gordon]

From vinyl?!

Re:Heh, n00bs...

[p0tat03]

Lies! True Led Zep fans stare intently at the vinyl to play back the music in their head!

Re:May I be the first to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

> FINALLY!

...the levee breaks.

(Fixed it for you.)

Re:Beatles?

[Tablizer]

Michael Jackson purchased most of the Beatles copyrights. He also owns copyrights to the music of many other artists and whomever wants the rights to use those will have to negotiate with him, at least till his control of the copyrights expire.

Which means it'll cost you an arm, a leg, and a white-woman's nose.

When she gets there, she knows

[ross.w]

if the stores are all closed, with a click she can get what she came for.

Amazon patents notwithstanding

Re:When she gets there, she knows

[Kesch]

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who to talk to when michael jackson falls apart ?

[unity100]

cuz he is falling apart piece by piece. nose is dropping somewhere, ear in another and so on. will one need to talk to individual pieces of michael jackson or the falling pieces have decided on a spokesperson/representative among themselves ?

little wonder they held out

[MrKaos]

The group is one of the last superstar acts to hold out against the digital tide.

They've been dazed and confused them for so long it' not true.

Re:Having grown up

[gooman]

Time Travel.
That's how you rip-off a Blues musician 20, 30 even 40 years before they are born.

Re:Garth Brooks may never go digital

[StikyPad]

LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! PLEASE.

(Hey, somebody was gonna say it.. might as well be me.)

Re:Led out?

[wasted]

What took so long to get the led out?

My thoughts on possible reasons:

• Technology left them Dazed and Confused .
  
• They resisted when they had plenty of money during the Good Times, Bad Times currently prevail, though.
  
• They wanted to ensure that The Song Remains the Same during the analog to digital conversion.
  
• They wanted to do it earlier, but there was a Communication Breakdown - during the discussions, it seemed that one of the parties would just Ramble On .
  
• They weren't sure what the analog to digital conversion would do to their Rock and Roll , and were considering Going to California to get it all straightened out.

Re:ringtones?!?

[RedOctober]

Denied!

Re:Led out?

[RepelHistory]

My thoughts on possible reasons:

* Technology left them Dazed and Confused.
* They resisted when they had plenty of money during the Good Times, Bad Times currently prevail, though.
* They wanted to ensure that The Song Remains the Same during the analog to digital conversion.
* They wanted to do it earlier, but there was a Communication Breakdown - during the discussions, it seemed that one of the parties would just Ramble On.
* They weren't sure what the analog to digital conversion would do to their Rock and Roll, and were considering Going to California to get it all straightened out.

These puns are Wearing and Tearing on my sense of humor.
I'll give you No Quarter if you continue saying them.
It'll be your fault When the Levee Breaks...the levee of my SANITY, that is.
...........
Immigrant Song

Re:Led Zep should be FREE by now

[darthflo]

I AM the singularity. I also am filling the interwebs with Led Zepplin directly from another dimension (or so they say).

Re:Led out?

[Pantero Blanco]

These puns are Wearing and Tearing on my sense of humor.
I'll give you No Quarter if you continue saying them.
It'll be your fault When the Levee Breaks...the levee of my SANITY, that is.

Your fight against bad puns in Slashdot posts looks like it's going to be a Battle of Evermore.

Re:+1 correct

[Darby]

Reminds me of the article on beavers where somebody kept putting in something like "Beavers devour people with their powerful fangs. They are the most dangerous animals alive."

You mean where somebody kept removing that critical piece of information about those savage creatures?