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   beatles music

   

   frank whalen, Apr 13th, 2006 @ 2:16pm

   
   

   i guss paul would like to buy his wife a new seal fur coat?

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   Seals

   

   lance, Apr 13th, 2006 @ 2:19pm

   
   

   For Paul it would be Walrus

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   I am the egg man

   

   Dan Theman, Apr 13th, 2006 @ 2:26pm

   
   

   Doesn't Michael Jackson now own the Beatles catalogue? Perhaps he's running out of dough in Bahrain and wants to open up Never-EVER Land there.

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   Aw, fellas, be nice

   

   CyberCrone, Apr 13th, 2006 @ 2:26pm

   
   

   The music biz seems to turn nice people nasty. The Beatles made enough money from their music to buy anything they want for another three lifetimes. You'd think by now they'd say, Let's give something back to the people who made us multi-millionaires (billionaires?). Let's let them download our songs cheap, or even free.

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   Beatles Music Downloads

   

   Gabriel, Apr 13th, 2006 @ 2:28pm

   
   

   I know I have searched for legal music to download from the Beatles online, and when there is none, I know personally, and from friends, that you resort to the free downloads.
   Going out and buying a Cd takes more time than downloading.
   Im glad they are having a change of heart.
   Music you pay for always sounds better =P

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   Sounds like ca-ching to me

   

   coder, Apr 13th, 2006 @ 2:43pm

   
   

   "Music you pay for always sounds better"
   
   Yeah, if I could find somewhere to pay for music but still be able to play it on all my devices and get it at a good sounding bit-rate. Read my lips: locked-down DRM is stupid.

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   And here I thought it was common knowledge

   

   Mr. Brightside, Apr 13th, 2006 @ 3:46pm

   
   

   Michael Jackson (yes...Jacko the Clown) owns the rights to the Beatles music.
   
   So, I guess it's not a new car for Paul, but defense attorney bills for Jacko.

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   Mr. Jackson = Los-er

   

   demo-tion, Apr 13th, 2006 @ 4:30pm

   
   

   I was led to believe that he lost the rights to the music during all of the recent court schtick.

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   Re: I am the egg man

   

   tman, Apr 13th, 2006 @ 4:40pm

   
   

   I thought he owned (Michael Jackson ) the rights to the sheet music

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 13th, 2006 @ 4:45pm

    
    

    The music is more than 15 years old, What the heck would Michael Jackson want to do with it?

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    Anonymous, Apr 13th, 2006 @ 5:54pm

    
    

    Micheal Jackson is creepy, that is all that we need to be sure of.

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    beatles and Jackson

    

    ccarter, Apr 13th, 2006 @ 6:33pm

    
    

    Sony Music/ATV currently owns half of the Lennon-McCartney Beatles catalog with Michael Jackson; recent stories have speculated that Jackson is about to offer Sony the option to buy up to 25 per cent more of the catalog. Rights to original recordings of Beatles songs have always been highly protected -- that's why they mostly don't show up on "Best of the British invasion"-type TV CD collections, etc. I don't know if that is Sony/ATV/Jackson, or Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney exercising control over the performance rights, but I'd say they were right to keep the Beatles above the cheesy compilation discs, and wrong to keep them off online services.

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    Re: beatles music

    

    Anonymous, Apr 14th, 2006 @ 7:18am

    
    

    A seal fur coat and a new wooden leg...

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    I'll tell you exactly why they are doing it now...

    

    Anonymous Coward, Apr 14th, 2006 @ 10:08am

    
    

    They are doing it now because of the Apple lawsuit against Steve Jobs' Apple. They want to be able to tell a judge that they are involved in computery-online things and hope to bolster their contention that the consumer would confuse the two Apples.

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    Beatles for Sale

    

    Jim Quinn, Apr 14th, 2006 @ 10:58am

    
    

    Sounds like an album,,you techies must be daydreaming non believers. There is a site with over a hundred Beatle albums and beatle tribute bands,you choose the bitrate, download method, and more than just the beatles,pretty much any artist you can think of.I have gotten over 300 downloads from them, all clean all clear all legal. did Allman Brothers "Eat a Peach" Double CD for 1.88, yes thats a dollar and 88 cents. Download single songs or entire cd,s less than 2 bucks, no I do not work for this company, nor do I profit from this company. And Jacko only owned part of the catalog which he or his people are trying to unload now. lets hear from all the naysayers now

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 16th, 2006 @ 9:56pm

    
    

    "showing once again that content creators need the internet more than the internet needs them"
    
    didnt you say something like this (not) about the telcos wanting to charge google?

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