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An LA judge has slapped an injunction on the Californian website that was flogging downloads of the Beatles catalogue at 25 cents a pop. According to the LA Times, Judge John F Walter said the defendant in the case, BlueBeat.com and its owner, Hank Risan, rejected Bluebeat's argument that it had not breached copyright in the …

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  1. Paul Bruneau

    Nutty

    I think this guy should get with Balloon Boy's dad and work on some new business ideas.

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  2. Christopher Rogers
    WTF?

    what a prat

    how did he think this was different to me buying the cd, making an MP3 from it and selling it on???

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    that'll be one of those...

    secret deals that's so secret the label doesn't even know about it.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

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    Now we all know it's illegal to flog, for example, DVDs of movies shot with a video camera in a cinema. So how did this idiot think that it would be legal to sell his own recordings of Beatles tracks?

    Or to approach the question another way does he think it's legal to go out and buy a single copy of a book and sell photocopies of that book?

    What an idiot.

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  5. ratfox
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    You mean the law applies to me too?

    Nobody paid attention to me before... How come suddenly they are?

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  6. Dave The Cardboard Box

    Psychoacoustic?

    Was he channelling John Lennon or just pressing record?

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