Watching channel 2 in St Louis news just now and they reported that the Beatles and Apple are near an agreement that would make their songs available exclusively on iTunes. I have almost everything by the Beatles that interests me on CD so I have no need to buy their stuff on iTunes. How many people will actually buy stuff that's been out for almost 50 years on iTunes? Why not just rip it from a CD that is already bought and paid for?
http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/22/technology/apple_beatles_ipod.fortune/Beatles: only on iPod?
After years of refusing to make the move to MP3, the Beatles may give Steve Jobs' iTunes an exclusive, reports Fortune's Tim Arango.
By Tim Arango, Fortune writer
November 27 2006: 11:58 AM EST
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...While details remain to be worked out, Fortune has learned that iTunes is close to a deal to bring the Beatles catalog online. Apple Computer (Charts) is said to be angling to become the exclusive online music store for the Beatles for a limited window of time. Other music stores, such as Microsoft's (Charts) MSN and Rhapsody, have courted the Beatles over the years to no avail, but it appears Apple is close to getting first dibs on the band's hits.
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