According to a report from World Entertainment News Network via Starpulse, the Beatles catalog is in the process of being remastered for distribution via Apple’s iTunes Music Store.
Reportedly revealed in court by Apple Corps record label head honcho Neil Aspinall during the Apple Corps vs. Apple Computer trademark hearings: “We’re remastering the whole Beatles catalog, just to make it sound brighter and better and getting proper booklets to go with each of the packages. I think it would be wrong to offer downloads of the old masters when I am making new masters. It would be better to wait and try to do them both simultaneously so that you then get the publicity of the new masters and the downloading, rather than just doing it ad hoc.”
No additional confirmation of this lone report is available at this time.
Full article here.
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Well, here’s hoping the april fool was correct
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I don’t think they would be going through iTunes, with all that is happening… They’ll probably make a good at it themselves with Apple Corps label I bet…
I guess Apple corps will get all the profits too
Maybe the judge ruled that they’re being ridiculous and instead of paying apple legal fees, apple offered them this route instead
$5 says they will do the downloads from their own site using DRMed WMA.
Frigging Apple Corps pricks.
I got all the Beatles anyway, you can get them too courtesy of AllofMP3.com.
Oh I forget to say “How about them apples, Apple Corps?”
Hehehehe
Maybe the deal is Apple Corps gets 1% of all iTunes profits, if they promise never, ever, ever to sue Apple again in regards to music or music/media services.
That would shut them up.
beatles!!!???? Pah!!!!!!
Bunch of overrated limey bastards….
Interesting conundrum. Whoever wins the Apple case could win the right to download. Apple (the iTMS one) stance is that they control digital distribution according to the legal agreement. Apple Corps is that they control the physical media plus music creation. This, I think, is behind the whole Apple v Beatles thing. The Beatles maybe wanted to control their own digital distribution and were beaten to the game by Apple Computer who pointed out they had the digital rights, not Apple Corps. The only recourse would be for Apple Corps to try to get the agreement clarified in a court of law. I suspect that if Apple Computer wins Apple Corps will not be able to distribute their own music.
teh beatles are has-beens, just like metallica, hoping for a court-room payday…
The Beatles? Come onnnnn . . . all it took was one “Silly Love Song” and a batch of Yoko’s mellifluous “recordings” to undo any good the stoned-out, Dalai Lama-worshipping Fab Four did in de sixties.
I’m trying to remember de last time the Beatles were relevant. Yeh-hehessssss, I’m thinking . . . most likely before most of you nerds were born.
Hey – I’m a Limey!
And so is Jonathan Ives!
The Beatles: The Jobs and Woz of Music
Jobs and Woz: The Beatles of Computers
Have the twain finally met? Let’s hope…
The Beatles never “worshipped” the Dalai Lama… they studied meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India… till the guru started hitting on their women.
It’s like this, 90% of new computer users wouldn’t download the Beatles on iTMS except for their grandpa who misplaced his original Apple Corps cd’s.
Most people who wanted the Beatles already have them. Their stuff is old, way old. I’ve heard it a zillion times old when my parents were hippies old. I mean you got to be in your 50’s to really like the Beatles now and how many 50 year olds even bother with the internet, much less iTMS? Thier brains are so befuddled they can’t even move the mouse or download much of anything anyway.
Please no Beatles on iTMS, I think I would have to shoot myself if my folks found out. Praise Apple, Gates is the devil, amen.
say it’s being re-mastered for iTunes.
Read it again.
It says the music is being re-mastered, and that someone THINKS that MIGHT be good for iTunes also.
Sheesh. This is how false rumors get started.
Morty/Macdude
You little shit for brains micro$hit whore! I’m 57, on the internet, have a black 5g 30g iPod, been on a Mac since IIci. Gave my wife my old 3g iPod. Thank God I already have the Beatles on CD. All of them so I don’t have to download anything having to do with Apple Corp.
I hope your “hippie” parents in their “50’s” aren’t reading this; you might not get that trip to Disneyland you’ve always wanted. Bad boy!!
Poor Morty. Your brain is befuddled for one so young. Have you forgotten that Steve Jobs is in his 50s?
MikeR,
Such language. Apparently, even by the age of 57, you haven’t learned to make your point without the use of LCD expletives. Tsk, tsk.
By the way, LCD=lowest common denominator. In this context, it’s not a good thing.
CrazyMomma
Sorry, LCD is the highest commom denominator (HCD) Morty can understand.
I’ll o to my room.
oh cum on now Crazymomma cut the guy some slack i liked his LCD’s brings a little humour to we way to serious mac anoraks
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MikeR, 57 is like umm, 17 years past the midlife crisses, get over it dude.
Get a hearing aid, some reading glasses and a nice walker with wheels.
Maharishi never ‘hit on’ the Beatles’ women.
The Beatles were stoned out drug-heads who Maharishi pleaded NOT to come to visit him in India. They came anyway.
After a while some of them went back to their old habit of drugs and were asked by Maharishi to leave. That really pissed of John and he came back to the USA and started spreading false accusations.
Don’t believe me… go ask Mia Farrow who personally told me that it was a total fabrication on John’s part.
And finally, I was just outside the room when this ’91 meeting between George and Maharishi took place:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1415351,curpg-1.cms
Save the FUD for saving the butts of MS and Mac virus detection program companies.