Well that didnt last long.....
Taken down already :-(
Norway's national broadcaster breaks Beatles download deadlock
A Norwegian broadcaster is claiming to be responsible for making The Beatles' entire back catalogue available for download for the first time. The downloads are free because they form part of Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) podcasts. The Beatles is one of the few bands that has held out from licensing its music for digital …
-
-
Wednesday 7th January 2009 12:53 GMT Mark
Speech throughout the podcast?
Easy peasy.
Multi-track. Two channels for the music and a rear channel (that isn't demuxed into the stereo stream) for some wittering on.
Look, the artists are making shitloads of cash from the music teachers' work in teaching them how to play instruments. Yet the teacher gets NOTHING from it! PIRACY!!!
The recordings were done by especially skilled recording engineers. These engineers took the tracks and made the music gel together and ensured that the mix didn't drown out what was on another mic. Fixed any errors if they could be corrected and worked out what needed redoing to make the album.
And for this, they get a pittance. How are their families going to cope when they aren't recording engineers any more? Well, the artist is still making money from the album, much of the creative work in that album was from the engineers. So they should get royalties too. They don't, though. PIRACY!!!!
I mean, how are sound recording engineers and teachers supposed to survive when the benefits of their labours are exploited by others and they never see a red cent from it????
PIRACY!!!!
-
Wednesday 7th January 2009 14:51 GMT Niall Campbell
I thought the rights to all Beatles songs...
... were bought by Michael Jackson so the Rutles (sorry Beatles) have no say at all in what is done with them.
Personally, I'm glad they have been blocked, could we also have a ban on their cd's and vinyl evr being played again. Load of old rubbish.
I'll be trouble for slagging off such 'gods'
-
-
Wednesday 7th January 2009 20:32 GMT Anonymous Coward
Maybe the Norwegians can negotiate with...
Maybe they can do a deal with Liam and Noel instead. Obviously it won't be as good as the real thing, for that you need the Rutles.
Either way, all you need is cash.
As for recording engineers: judging by many "live" performances I saw on TV over christmas vs their commercially-released chart equivalents, there are still plenty of competent engineers/producers around able to use electrickery in the recording studio to hide their artistes lack of ability to actually sing in tune (usually it's the singing ones?). Maybe the engineers need to withdraw their services for a bit, so their paymasters can better appreciate their "added value"?
-
Thursday 8th January 2009 12:15 GMT system
RE: Maybe the Norwegians can negotiate with...
"there are still plenty of competent engineers/producers around able to use electrickery in the recording studio to hide their artistes lack of ability to actually sing in tune"
Hell, they don't even need to be able to stand upright judging by recent ads I've seen for "live" concerts by Lynard Skynard and the Rat Pack.
-
Monday 12th January 2009 08:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
No podcast, but download is possible
Hey Vulture Central, these files can still be downloaded! A Dutch radio station discovered that although the podcast is offline, the mp3 files behind it are still there. They figured out the paths to these files and posted links, on
http://blogs.fd.nl/crumbs/2009/01/internet-vand-2.html
Whoever gets there first will have a successful download. ;-)
Please report when they really switch it off.
This topic is closed for new posts.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
