Attempt To "Digitalize" Beatles Goes Sour 434
An anonymous reader points to this article at exclaim.ca, which begins "Just when Beatles fans thought the band were finally going digital, the Norwegian national broadcaster has been forced to call off the deal. Broadcasting company NRK has had to remove a series of 212 podcasts, each of which featured a different Beatles song and would have effectively allowed fans to legally download the entire Fab Four catalogue for free."
The Old-Fashioned Way (Score:5, Funny)
Recently, Paul McCartney said negotiations to get the Fab Four onto iTunes had âoestalled,â leaving some fans more than a little ticked that they still have to listen to the band the old-fashioned way.
What's "the old-fashioned way"? Bit-Torrent?
Re:Is this that important ? (Score:5, Funny)
Like Flock of Seagulls!
Re:The Old-Fashioned Way (Score:5, Funny)
I interpreted that as an official statement from the fake Paul McCartney saying that the fans should listen to the band the old-fashioned way as a tribute to the late real Paul McCartney.
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Look, nobody calls book publishing "Alpha/numeric character distribution".
Am I wrong for naming content by its content (MIME) type? My mother asked if I would send her pictures of my vacation, and I told her "yep, I'll have those image/jpegs to you in a multipart/mixed by saturday", then she called me a human/x-weirdo and I modem/NO-CARRIER'd her! We haven't spoken since, but at first I thought you were her posting AC before I noticed your improper labeling of publish/multichar so you couldn't possibly be her. Besides, a human/female on http://slashdot.org./article.pl [slashdot.org.]? No way!
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I'm 47 .... I live in Chicago...
Hi Barak you really should register rather than posting as AC.
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"From before my time but still worth listening to"
That's where I would fall, and I think even the poster that started this thread might fall into that category.
I do think the Beatles are vastly overrated though. Not to slight the actual Beatles, it's just that nobody can live up to the hype some of their rabid fans give them. If they did a show, resurrected John and George, Jesus came again & sung backup vocals, they solved global warming during the show & gave everybody in the world orgasms at the same time, they couldn't live up to the hype.
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.At the time they recorded, there was nobody better. But since you're listening in 2008, .../p>
Dude, perhaps you should look at the calendar some time.
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Like Flock of Seagulls!
Truly timeless, in the most literal of senses.
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... gave everybody in the world orgasms at the same time, they couldn't live up to the hype.
...I'd be willing to give that a try.
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