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Judge Orders BlueBeat.com to Pull Down Beatles Songs, Other Music; the Psycho-Acoustic Simulation Defense

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on November 6, 2009 at 4:24 pm PT

You should not be surprised to learn that a federal judge yesterday ordered BlueBeat.com to immediately stop selling Beatles songs and other music from its site, rejecting a goofy assertion that the company had copyrights on the songs via the use of something called “psycho-acoustic simulation.”

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EMI Sues Site Over Beatles Songs

Ethan Smith, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 5, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

The Beatles catalog finally became available for paid digital downloading, but not the way the band’s record label, EMI Group Ltd., intended.