An online music store caught selling Beatles mp3s without permission has removed the band's music from its services, but denies it was breaking the law.
Record label EMI won a court injunction against Bluebeat.com on Friday, preventing Bluebeat.com from continuing to sell music by EMI artists.
Bluebeat.com had been selling the Beatles' music for US$0.25 a song, a quarter the price most online music stores charge for mp3s. The Beatles are yet to licence their music to any online music store, including iTunes.
In a strange twist however,
Bluebeat.com owner
Hank Risan said the songs being sold were exempt from copyright as they had been re-recorded, but made to sound exactly like the original
Beatles recordings thanks a new technology called "
psycho-acoustic simulation".
Technology website Techradar.com called it the "world's worst legal defence".
Thanks for the report to 3news.co.nz.
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