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Posted by fred-bloggs on 05/27/06 12:58
RichardK <atari@NOSPAMbtconnect.com> wrote in
news:4dmjjhF1b6toqU1@individual.net:
> fred-bloggs wrote:
>
>>>I can see absolutely no benefit whatsoever in having WMA-DRM. It's a
>>>proprietary format with very few worthwhile sources and certainly not
>>>something one would encode by choice. Or purchase by choice.
>>>
>>
>>
>> So when, hypothetically, the Beatles release their music on Urge(MTV)
>> you wouldn't want to have the choice of downloading it onto your
>> Ipod?
>
> I hate the Beatles. I'm not 60, I'm not a hippy,
Yet you have long hair and live with someone you are not married to?
> and I'm not someone
> who thinks that a bunch of manufactured shite revolutionised music.
George Martin absolutely was a revolutionary producer. Strawberry Fields
and Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds invented psychedelia and Abbey Road in
1968 featured the first use of Moogs in popular music and was recorded on
an 8 track Studer.
> I
> hate their unimaginative 'output', their no-brainer lyrics. I hate
> their ubiquity and undeserved respect.
Unsuccessful musician are you?
> If I could erase every memory
> of a Beatles track from my mind, I would;
I don't have any Beatles tracks. They are all permanently imprinted.
> especially if it also wiped
> out Oasis and all these copycat acts.
I'd agree with you there.
>
> Were The Beatles back cataloque to be released in WMA-DRM, I would be
> pleased that very little I own could play it.
>
> If I could make a list of people I could shoot for just being
> annoying, Paul McCartney would be right next to Ben Elton and Michael
> Moore.
Do you often feel the urge to shoot people you find annoying? I take it you
don't mean photography?
>
> Unfortunately, I suspect that their turds are going to float to the
> surface of iTMS before anything else;
*We certainly will do everything we can to get them on iTunes. The Beatles
aren't available in any digital format today but they are going to be one
day. We certainly hope that happens on iTunes.*
Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of iTunes.
> McCartney is nothing if not
> greedy and utterly lacking in the talent required to produce new
> material, and will want to use the most successful outlet.
The rights to the Beatles catalogue are held 50/50 by Sony and Michael
Jackson.
--
fred
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