I gather they are already removed, owing to a misunderstanding over the licence the broadcaster thought it was getting.

that the agreement is only for music broadcast in 2007 that they can give away free..

Easy peasy.

Multi-track. Two channels for the music and a rear channel (that isn't demuxed into the stereo stream) for some wittering on.

Look, the artists are making shitloads of cash from the music teachers' work in teaching them how to play instruments. Yet the teacher gets NOTHING from it! PIRACY!!!

The recordings were done by especially skilled recording engineers. These engineers took the tracks and made the music gel together and ensured that the mix didn't drown out what was on another mic. Fixed any errors if they could be corrected and worked out what needed redoing to make the album.

And for this, they get a pittance. How are their families going to cope when they aren't recording engineers any more? Well, the artist is still making money from the album, much of the creative work in that album was from the engineers. So they should get royalties too. They don't, though. PIRACY!!!!

I mean, how are sound recording engineers and teachers supposed to survive when the benefits of their labours are exploited by others and they never see a red cent from it????

PIRACY!!!!

Just a payment deadlock, a problem of their own creation that the internet has largely ignored.

...ask google for help.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/31/chris_castle_google_books_and_beyond/

Michael bought all the publishing rights i think, airplay royalties still go to Paul and Ringo as far as i can recall.

Don't you mean "Popular beat combo"?

Now where was that from? Some sitcom somewhere. AbFab?

"there are still plenty of competent engineers/producers around able to use electrickery in the recording studio to hide their artistes lack of ability to actually sing in tune"

Hell, they don't even need to be able to stand upright judging by recent ads I've seen for "live" concerts by Lynard Skynard and the Rat Pack.

Hey Vulture Central, these files can still be downloaded! A Dutch radio station discovered that although the podcast is offline, the mp3 files behind it are still there. They figured out the paths to these files and posted links, on

http://blogs.fd.nl/crumbs/2009/01/internet-vand-2.html

Whoever gets there first will have a successful download. ;-)

Please report when they really switch it off.