Proving that all hippy free love socialists deep down love the almightly dollar while still trying to defeat capitalism, former Beatles Sir Paul McCartney , Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, and George Harrison's estate are suing Apple iTunes over the use of the Apple logo and name in conjunction with the Apple iTunes service. It seems they think they own everything. I am just waiting for them to sue Volkswagon because of the Beetle might be confused with their shitty music.
I think Paul is still miffed that boy lover Michael Jackson outbid him for the rights to his own songs.
They also rail against music swapping services like Napster and Kaaza, but refuse to allow their songs on legitimate services like iTunes. Go figure. The Beatles have always resisted new technology. They waited 5 years after CDs were introduced to offer their drug induced hippy fodder on CD.
The problem is that the drug fried minds of the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Metallica can't keep with the times. They don't see that the new and preferred format for music is downloadable. For myself, I will no longer buy a CD from store. If it's not on iTunes, I won't buy it.
I grant you that a portion of the downloaders are crooks who just want free stuff, but more than that it is a population that is increasingly digital. From MP3 players to Tivos, the downloaders want their music portable, transferrable, and digital. The RIAA member bands have been slower than molases in winter at adopting new technologies. Servies like iTunes and the new Napster is where the futuere of buying and distributing music is at.
Instead of embracing this technology they fought the illegal downloaders, and now refuse to adapt to the legal alternative.
What Mr. Conductor and The Walrus don't seem to get is that people are getting more and more fed up with this kind of action. From the Beatles suing Apple iTunes to the RIAA itself suing a wheelchair bound honor student, they look more and more like anti-capitalist communists.
Posted by psugrad98 at February 4, 2004 02:21 PMAmen to that!
The Beatles never really did anything for me either. Except that one song...
Anyways, yes, if people don't bother to chamge with the times they shouldn't complain when they're left in the dust.
Posted by: Kaplika at February 7, 2004 05:40 PMYou guys must be really dumb or really high or both. The Beatles are the best, most talented band ever. They broke so much ground and they are just as influential as they were then as they are now. With songs like: Yesterday, Help, Strawberry Fields Forever, Let it be, The long and winding road, In my life, Here comes the sun, Revolution, Why don't we do it in the road?, Sgt. Pepper, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, With a little help from our friends how can anyone say they suck. They released so much beautiful, diverse music no band has even come close to The Beatles, talent or popularity wise.
Posted by: al at March 11, 2004 01:09 PMAs a band, the Beatles were the best. Period, end of discussion. That said, this is just about the stupidest thing they've ever done, and I really have to agree with what the poster said about these fogeys refusing to adopt to today's tech. Metallica is the worst of the lot (at least the Fabs had the brains to break up in their prime rather than go ON and ON and ON into self-parody). I've got a gig of mp3's on my hard drive, I ain't given 'em up! My CD player is dying on me and I already have my eye on an iPod. STEP TO THE 21ST CENTURY, MACCA!!!!!
Posted by: Boogie Fever at March 16, 2004 09:26 AMIt's not about being fogeys and resisting advancing technology. It's an alleged friggin' contractual violation by Apple Computers not to get into the music business. Apple Corp and Apple Computers are both big boys. One of them is legally right. Let them duke it out. As for the Beatles being greedy. Good for them. They deserve all they can get. In Brian Epstein, they had the most inept business manager in the modern history of business who signed away their song and merchandizing rights. The individual Beatles have built up their fortunes post-split by being astute businessmen like Steve Jobs. Capitalism must follow the rule of law, too, or else we wind up with Microsoft.
Posted by: Phatazz at March 16, 2004 12:15 PMNice to see all the Agent posts, How good would the Beatles sound now without the benifit of Drugs, every Beatles song i have heard Bit and all of this is really just attention whoring 'cause nobody cares about the beatles anymore... i mean come on, trying to piggyback on Eminem's popularity was an obvious desperate measure.
Posted by: Lehk at March 16, 2004 12:40 PMLehk: What you smokin'? You obviously haven't developed any ability to listen to MUSIC.
Eminem? Where will he be in 5 years? The dustiest rack at the pawn-shop???????
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