Apple and The Beatles

[technologist]

I hope this also paves the way for Lossless songs soon. Not to mention availability from other record companies

Nice to see Apple putting its money where its mouth is.

 

[Beatles4Life]

"You've got a good sound, but you'll never make it with a stupid name like The Beatles."

*points to quote* I'm going to pretend I didn't see that.

On a happier note, I think it would be cool if they had Beatles songs on iTunes.

 

[Brown Study]

If it is truly DRM-free, wouldn't this mean for the EMI songs, there won't be any borders?

There's nothing stopping it now except:

Each government wants its cut, and each jurisdiction has its own laws: age limits, credit-card regulations, fraud statutes, the list goes on forever. But taxes are always the most important.

Any central iTunes computer would explode trying to keep straight the GSTs (Australia's and Canada's), VATs and federal taxes under any other name the world over, provincial, state and territorial taxes the world over — and whether music is considered a sin within the bounds of a given world and area code. And if the reported taxes were wrong or not reported at all. . . .

Consumer-protection laws could take a beating, too. (Actually, all this is happening now.)

 

[Brown Study]

I think it would be cool if they had Beatles songs on iTunes.

I came across this in a Sci-Tech Today article on Google news (scie-tech-today.com, if the story disappears from Google):

The Beatles' music, which has not been available for online sales, was specifically excluded from the deal.

That's all it says about them.

 

[Alexis]

Why don't you just buy some second hand CDs off ebay if you want some old 60's group on your iPod? :black: :black: :black:

 

[MacHeadCase]

I too want some old 60's group on my iPod but I don't want to buy it on a copyright-protected CD because then I wouldn't be able to put the songs on my iPod. Unless I'd want to start doing stuff that' illegal just so I can upload them to the iPod. If the songs don't make it gracefully on my iPod, I'm going to do without.

 

[Alexis]

LOL.
Are the Beatles CD's copy protected? I've never come across copy protected music CD's and only read about a few of the Sony ones that the courts made take off the copy proofing.

 

[MacHeadCase]

Maybe not, I wouldn't really know but I have grown mistrustful of CDs lately, thanks to Sony (and Sony is big in Canada, they own most of the independent record labels here so you really don't know what you're buying till you pop it into your CD-ROM — some will mention they have copy-protection, some won't). And I know George Martin has remastered the whole Beatles' catalog but I still ain't movin' that way yet. I like to encourage Apple.

The Beatles were in my time and I really loved the music they did.

 

[caribiner23]

The Beatles' current in-print CDs are not copy-protected. And yes, the entire catalog has been remastered and will be reissued at some point in 2007 (according to Apple Corps).

 

[Brown Study]

I had heard about these, but Wow! Here's proof. What's next? 50 cent on a wax cylinder?