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Attempt To "Digitalize" Beatles Goes Sour
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."
They probably saw this.
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Yes, but the Beatles hardly qualify as music, let alone timeless.
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?
at a concert you dolt.
-- Chris
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The Beatles haven't outlasted their generation. It takes a while for things that are quite popular to really outlast their generation, hell, there's even two beatles left alive. How's that outlasting their generation if even they themselves are still around?
Mozart and other classics HAVE outlasted their generation. Most definitely. But I somehow doubt anyone will know what The Beatles were in a few hundred years, but they'll probably still know Mozart, Strauss and the others. Hell, they might even still know Morrison and Presley, perhaps even some Sinatra. Why? Because they were more than just very popular, very well marketed music.
The only innovation The Beatles did was become the first pop band as we know them today. Talentless and popular. Being the first they perhaps weren't quite talentless, but they were as creative and artistic as Britney Spears.
Ha! We know they are not so great since they are half-dead!! Say hello to Timothy Leary in Hell you acid dropping hippie dirtbags. (Except for Ringo. He's cool since he dates 16 year old girls.)
Michael Jackson and Sony own the publishing rights (ie, sheet music and radio/cover royalties). Michael Jackson used his part as loan collateral, so barring a federal bailout, he'll probably eventually lose it. Proving once again, a nigger is a nigger, even if he looks like a white woman.