The Beatles catalog will be released on a USB drive. 16 GB of music and extras. This goes along with class from when Prof. Dullea was saying "we don't want your atoms, just your bits". It is much easier to sell this data on a flash drive since there is so much material. We are moving further and further away from music on CDs with things like this and iTunes.
-Eva Cartwright
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Does anyone else find it strange that they have found a way to release the beatles music in an electronic form but they still aren't available from iTunes?
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Holy Crap! 16GB of material??? I have 3100 songs on my computer right now and its 14GB. There must be a bunch of video icluded in those "extras".
ReplyDeleteIt is very strange when certain music isn't available on iTunes. In the end it will hurt them more than anything because pirating and getting music for free has become so easy. If someone wants a copy of it they can just download for free.
ReplyDeleteBut in the case of the Beatles there has been a long standing copyright issue between Apple Corps (the Beatles' founded record label) and Apple Computers (iTunes). Simply iTunes currently refuses to sell their music. There is actually a link to a story about this at the end of this article. http://news.cnet.com/Beatles-group-sues-Apple-over-trademark/2100-1027_3-5075721.html
Releasing their music this way is one of the ways they are trying to sell it digitally as they can't sell it through iTunes.
I think that this is only the beginning of a great new way to buy not only music, but also movies. I think that this is a good move, cd's have been going out of style over the past few years. Not to mention that USB devices are also capable of storing much more data than cd's.
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