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Attempt To "Digitalize" Beatles Goes Sour

Posted by timothy on from the when-you're-64-and-probably-not-even-then dept.

An anonymous reader points to this article at exclaim.ca, which begins "Just when Beatles fans thought the band were finally going digital, the Norwegian national broadcaster has been forced to call off the deal. Broadcasting company NRK has had to remove a series of 212 podcasts, each of which featured a different Beatles song and would have effectively allowed fans to legally download the entire Fab Four catalogue for free."

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  1. The Old-Fashioned Way by MightyMait · · Score: 5, Funny

    Recently, Paul McCartney said negotiations to get the Fab Four onto iTunes had âoestalled,â leaving some fans more than a little ticked that they still have to listen to the band the old-fashioned way.

    What's "the old-fashioned way"? Bit-Torrent?

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    1. Re:The Old-Fashioned Way by RuBLed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Recently, Paul McCartney said negotiations to get the Fab Four onto iTunes had Ãoestalled,Ã leaving some fans more than a little ticked that they still have to listen to the band the old-fashioned way.

      I interpreted that as an official statement from the fake Paul McCartney saying that the fans should listen to the band the old-fashioned way as a tribute to the late real Paul McCartney.

  2. Re:Is this that important ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Like Flock of Seagulls!

  3. Re:Is this that important ? by Anthony_Cargile · · Score: 5, Funny

    Look, nobody calls book publishing "Alpha/numeric character distribution".

    Am I wrong for naming content by its content (MIME) type? My mother asked if I would send her pictures of my vacation, and I told her "yep, I'll have those image/jpegs to you in a multipart/mixed by saturday", then she called me a human/x-weirdo and I modem/NO-CARRIER'd her! We haven't spoken since, but at first I thought you were her posting AC before I noticed your improper labeling of publish/multichar so you couldn't possibly be her. Besides, a human/female on http://slashdot.org./article.pl? No way!

  4. Re:Is this that important ? by MichaelSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm 47 .... I live in Chicago...

    Hi Barak you really should register rather than posting as AC.

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