Imagine Beatles on Apple
Not again. I was hoping to be able to buy Beatles tracks on iTunes by Christmas but it appears that suits are getting in the way of love, peace, and harmony. What’s the deal? Steve Jobs loves the Beatles, taking every opportunity to play their music at Apple (AAPL) events. The Beatles, or what’s left of them, want their music sold on iTunes. Music fans armed with iPods want desperately to spend their money on Beatles music. What’s the deal? Can someone please tell the suits at EMI today that the suits from EMI of yesteryear never meant to deprive a whole segment of the market! The greed of trying to extract every last percentage and concession only drives people away and makes the record company executives look out of touch with digital reality.
Beatles tracks are widely pirated on P2P networks. Even Paul McCartney doesn’t object to people downloading Beatles music illegally. The suits at EMI need to learn that having a tiny percentage of something is better than having a lot of nothing.
Hear, hear. The old school record labels reek of dead dinosaur meat.
Bring The Beatles to iTunes!!!
I’m confused by this EMI business. I thought most of the Beatles songs were owned by this Micheal Jackson/Sony collaboration. In which case keeping these songs off itunes wouldn’t be the craziest thing Jackson has ever done.
Either way slice it the people with the rights to this music are losing sales to illegal downloading because they are too busy with all the red tape. And really once its done, do you wanna put money in these people’s pockets? Music is free now, only because the “suits” tried to make it so expensive.
aaaah, the agony of an industry: the more they see their power crumble, the more they try to bit, the more they lose power, the more… etc… until they change fundamentally or… die!