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Paul McCartney Doesn’t Understand The Internet
3:17AM John Herrman | Paul McCartney’s doomsday scenario: Someone, somewhere, somehow manages to leak the Beatles’ music onto the internet, where it will be stolen by everyone, all the time. This must be prevented! Notice a problem there? Yeah, it gets worse. More »
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The Beatles’ Catalogue Now On Limited Edition USB Stick
11:55PM Danny Allen | It’s not iTunes, but Apple Corps and EMI are finally offering a legit way to grab digital Beatles tracks. This Apple-shaped stick has FLAC and MP3 versions of the new CD set: all of the band’s music re-mastered in stereo. More »
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The Geek Squad’s Newest Racket: CD Ripping
9:40AM John Herrman | Building on a proud tradition of charging for things that shouldn’t cost anything, Best Buy’s crack team of dudes will now rip your CDs, for the low low price of $US1 a disc. More »
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HP, Dr Dre Fixing Music With Line Of Laptops, Software, Headsets
3:20AM Sean Fallon | Dr Dre, Interscope Chairman Jimmy Lovine and HP have teamed up in an effort to reconstruct the entire “digital music ecosystem” starting with a new line of laptops, software and headsets under the Beats by Dr Dre brand. More »
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Greg Kot: The Music Industry Caused Piracy, iTunes Isn’t The Way Out
11:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Greg Kot, music critic for the Chicago Tribune and others, wrote a book called Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music. In a recent podcast interview, he enumerates the precise downfall of record labels and why iTunes isn’t their saviour. More »
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Suspiciously Prescient Man Files Patent For iPod-Like Device In 1979
1:30AM Dan Nosowitz | Kane Kramer, an inventor by trade, came up with a gadget and music distribution service almost eerily similar to the iPod-iTunes relationship that predates it by three decades. The guy predicted details down to DRM and flash memory’s dominance. More »
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BlackBerry’s Getting A Music Store In September
6:57AM Jason Chen | RIM’s signing up with 7Digital to bring a 6 million track library to BlackBerry phones starting September. The service will hit in “UK, US, Canada, France, Italy, Germany and Spain,” and will be priced at the standard $US0.99 track and $US9.99 album model. [TGDaily via Electronista]
Random Stuff
Is Napster Making An IPhone App?
7:21PM John Herrman | Giz reader and champion Craiglist peruser Andrew F. happened across a job posting from Napster, asking for a software engineer with experience in “Mac/iPhone OS X Development.” Such a posting might not normally be worth getting too excited over—after all, everyone’s making iPhone apps nowadays—but Napster just launched a new, cheap unlimited streaming service last month. Five bucks a month for instant access to seven million songs (plus downloads) is a solid deal as is; throw in an iPhone client and it’d be a great one. [Craigslist—Thanks, Andrew!]
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Napster’s New Pitch: Five DRM-Free Songs, Unlimited Streaming, $US5 A Month
8:10PM John Herrman | When Best Buy gobbled up Napster, Adam wondered what they could possibly do to make their expensive new liability relevant again. The answer? Go cheap. Very cheap. More »
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