This is shocking!!

If that defense worked, no one would ever buy original music again.

Comical indeed

Aww poor Bluebeat

Didn't see that one coming...

That defense is just ridiculous.

Why is it taking so long for Apple / EMI to sell the beatle's catalogue online? It's easy enough to buy their newly remastered CD's at a store or online, import to your itunes, and put them on your ipod.

He must have seen it coming; he used what is probably the most ridiculous (and incredibly confusing) defense argument ever.

Originally Posted by SuNDaYSTaR

He must have seen it coming; he used what is probably the most ridiculous (and incredibly confusing) defense argument ever.

That dude...is beyond moronic. Just...wow.

Good.

I feel the need to immortalize Risan's explanation for why he owns the recordings.

Quote:

Every musical sound in a sound recording has a point of origin, called a source point, as well as a capture point, where the sound is affixed. To create "pure sound" simulations, I purchased CD's of sound recordings over the counter. I made one ephermal [sic] copy of each recording, as authorized by section 112 [of the copyright act], destroying same shortly after the simulations were created. The original sounds were partitioned into segments for observation.

These segments were analyzed by artistic operators who, employing principles of psychoacoustics and advanced harmonic analysis, synthesized an independent parametric model of the sounds. A firewall was utilized to preserve independence between the sounds of the model and those of the original recording. I destroyed the ephemeral recording. Positing assumptions as to the location of the microphone and spacial relationship to the voice and instruments involved in a given recorded performance, the artistic operator then generated and fixed new sounds by selecting new capture points and new source points in a new virtual three dimensional computer-staged environment. The simulation, thus created, contained new and original spherical source point waves.

That's some of the best obtusely-constructed bullshit I've ever read. It's practically art.

Originally Posted by Josh Weinstein

Why is it taking so long for Apple / EMI to sell the beatle's catalogue online? It's easy enough to buy their newly remastered CD's at a store or online, import to your itunes, and put them on your ipod.

Because the band would want EMI to pay them every time someone illegally downloads the music.