A Santa Cruz-based website,
BlueBeat.com, was yesterday selling MP3 files of every single Beatles track for 25c (15p) each, including songs from the recently released remastered albums. The site was also streaming the albums in their entirety, allowing users to listen to them for free.
EMI and Apple Corps, The Beatles' own company, have fiercely protected the band's back catalogue and have so far resisted releasing any songs digitally. Analysts believe that a digitised Beatles catalogue could generate hundreds of millions of pounds in sales.
Last night a spokesman for EMI, which is owned by Guy Hands' Terra Firma private equity group, said that the company had not given its permission for the tracks to be sold and was "looking into" the situation. More...
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