BlueBeat's lawyers claim that the Website is "entirely lawful and does not constitute piracy" and that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed. Also, the plaintiffs are well aware that the defendants "developed a series of entirely new and original sounds that it allows the general public to purchase" and that "copyright protection does not extend to the independant fixation of sounds other than those contained in their copyrighted recordings."
Macworld points out that even if this were a sane argument that was remotely believable, BlueBeat sells their so-called knockoff Beatles tracks as real Beatles tracks, complete with "album title, track titles, record label, and release date." I just hope BlueBeat presents some sort of online demo of what "psycho-acoustic simulation" entails, so I can duplicate it at home and create my own music store.
Update, Friday Nov 6th: The judge has ordered Bluebeat to stop selling the Beatles tracks at once. (Thanks to sakanagai!)
"BlueBeat says Beatles songs are its own creations" [Macworld]
]]>@SybilDisobedience: Yesterday when I was at the Houston Zoo, they had a tshirt with "THE BEETLES" on it typed out just like the regular Beatles logo, and it had dancing beetles in a line.
I thought it was clever.
]]>@Nintenboy01: I'm pretty sure, once you cut through the bullshit, that it's the core of their defense - an MP3 isn't an actual performance or recording of the song, it's just a certain number of magnetic bits or electrons that can be made to SIMULATE a song.
It's still ten different flavours of bullshit, though.
]]>@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: My friends and I cohabit a mid-spectrum double-hulled submersible vessel of war.
Doesn't quite have the same ring to it, though.
]]>@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: Raspberry Fields.
]]>The judge overseeing the case isn't liking the psycho-acoustic argument proposed by the defendants, either, so I don't imagine EMI having a difficult time putting an end to this.
]]>@delphi_ote: Yes, and playing even a simple 128kbps MP3 over speakers is a "simulated live musical performance".
]]>@thriceberg: That's basically a fancy way of saying they're streaming an MP3, or some other compressed format.
]]>@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: Theresa in the Heavens with Citrines
]]>"BlueBeat transmits simulated live musical performances for free at 160 and 320 kb/s."
I wonder if that's the "psycho-acoustic simulation" they're referring to?
]]>@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: Elana Rigby?
]]>@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: She's departing her abode...
]]>Someone direct me to a site where I can buy "psycho-acoustic simulations" of Yoko Ono's music.
]]>@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: I have a voucher to travel...
]]>@DWalk: Oh, so these are by the BEETLES! My favorite song of theirs is "Scandinavian Lumber."
]]>@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: Bluebird singing in the dead of night...
]]>We all live in a yellow boat. A yellow boat. A yellow boat.
]]>Companies, this is the correct reason to sue someone for infringement.
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