The Beatles will not appear on an online music store any time soon. Wippit, some small potatoes online store, just “announced” that they secured the rights to sell Beatles songs online. Except they were lying. EMI, the company that owns the rights to the Beatles’ music, told them to remove the inaccurate press release or they’d unleash hell.
Frankly, I don’t see why people are so anxious to see the Beatles appears on an online store. They’ve been online for ages now.
Beatles download rumour quashed [BBC News]
looks like this prediction (http://worshiptheglitch.com/2006/05/why-beatles-wont-use-itunes-existing.html) might still come to fruition.
This ’small potatoes’ download firm is bigger than Napster, HMV and Virgin in the UK and second only to iTunes. Wippit was been selling MP3s before the iPod was announced.
Having never been in a bitter legal dispute with the Beatles (as Apple Computer have) it make perfect sense. Siding with Wippit would scuttle iTunes monopoly and give Paul and Ringo the type of satisfaction that BIG MONEy can’t buy.