A website offering unauthorised downloads of The Beatles music has been handed a lawsuit by EMI but it is bizarrely claiming it has rights to the music it is offering.
Bluebeat, which offers an alternative to digital radio, had been pretty much under everyone's musical radar until earlier this week when it was found that the entire archive of The Beatles were available to download on the site.
Although there are some reports that this archive has now gone, TechRadar has found that three of The Beatles records are still available: Love, Let It Be…Naked and the band's greatest hits offering 1.
Simulated live
A lawsuit has been issued by EMI, but the owners of Bluebeat, according to Wired, are claiming that the records have been re-recorded using 'psycho-acoustic simulation'.
The site itself does admit that it "transmits simulated live musical performances for free at 160 and 320 Kbps." Whatever that means.
With the majority of The Beatles albums now taken off of the site it does seems that EMI has pretty much got its way.
So we may still be unable to get official downloads of The Beatles but it's not all bad – at least the English speaking world now has the brilliant phrase 'psycho-acoustic simulation' to add to its lexicon.
You can check Bluebeat for yourself by clicking here.
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h1n1
November 9th
2. In response to sfrank2470: I looked up psychoacoustic in google and found the following: Psychoacoustics is presently applied within many fields from software development, where developers map proven and experimental mathematical patterns; in digital signal processing, where many audio compression codecs such as MP3 use a psychoacoustic model to increase compression ratios; in the design of (high end) audio systems for accurate reproduction of music in theatres and homes...It is also applied today within music, where musicians and artists continue to create new auditory experiences by masking unwanted frequencies of instruments, causing other frequencies to be enhanced.
It looks like Bluebeat may overcome EMI! This is a real thing, and it produces new experiences. Lets see what the judge says.
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sfrank2470
November 9th
1. It disturbs me whenever anyone reporting on a tech subject uses the phrase "whatever that means" Do your home work. Any idiot with a web browser can figure out what a psychoacustic simulatio is. You need to realize this issue between EMI and BLueBeat actually 1. Raises very serious copy right issues for both sides 2. Is a long way from being resolved. EMI has achieved a TEMPORARY INJUNCTION..that is all. The people of Blue Beat are not some stupid russian rip off site.
THis company has been around for quite sometime and knows what it is talking about.
They raise some very compelling arguments.
It is incredibly irrritating when people don't report facts and don't do their research before reporting. What is worse is interjecting personal opion into a report to sound glib or clever. "Psychoacoustic simulation" is a phrase we all better get used to because it is going to come up alot in the near future. Mocking the inventor is not going to make this issue go away.
Nov 20 starts the court battle. My suggestion? Start paying atention to what is going on in the recording industry. The rules are about to change.
Do us all a favor and take the time to properly research something first. Makes you sound so much more intelligent!
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