Thursday, March 31, 2011

The Beatles illegally on the Internet for 25 cents / song

ColdplayCover of ColdplayA website that reportedly had sold songs - songs of The Beatles illegally on the Internet for 25 cents / song, agreed to pay to record companies worth nearly 1 billion dollars in a legal settlement efforts.

As the BBC reported, Bluebeat.com based in the United States providing services stream and sell music from the group The beatles, Coldplay and other bands to be prosecuted in the year 2009.

Before being forced to close down, the website has sold more than 67 thousand songs Beatles.

Judge Josephine Tucker decided that the site had been abusing the copyright record companies and has conducted business competition is not healthy.

Bluebeat denied doing anything wrong, and acknowledge that the owner, Hank Risan, was pioneered a technique called "pscho-acoustic simulation" that allows it to produce a unique version of the music that is copyrighted.

The judge rejected that opinion because Risan version still comes from the tracks that he had bought on CD

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