Beatles for sale digitally on USB apples as EMI sues BlueBeat
EMI has confirmed that it is suing US digital music store BlueBeat for copyright infringement, following news broken by Music Ally last week that it was selling Beatles albums as MP3s without a licence. However, intriguingly, EMI has also announced plans for the first ever legitimate digital distribution of the Beatles back catalogue – via apple-shaped USB drives.
BlueBeat first: EMI confirmed to Wired’s Epicenter blog that it has filed the copyright infringement suit against BlueBeat in a California US district court. The label had previously expressed anger at the news that the Fab Four were being sold online without its permission.
But what about those USB drives. EMI and Apple Corps made the announcement last night, revealing that they will sell 30,000 apple-shaped devices, with the 14 recently-remastered Beatles albums preloaded as FLAC and MP3 files. They go on sale on 7 November in Europe and 8 November in the US, with a price point of £200 in the UK and $279.99 in the US.
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