From The Guardian interview with Sir Paul Mc
So what’s been the hold-up all this time? McCartney tells Observer Music Monthly: “We’ve been keen to do this for a while. I met Guy Hands on a plane once. His crew bought EMI. I refer to them as Terracotta but I believe it’s Terra Firma. I said: ‘What is the problem? I want to do it, we all want to do it.’ And he explained that in the deal that we want, they feel exposed. <…and he said> ”If [digitised Beatles music] gets out, if one employee decides to take it home and wap it on to the internet, we would have the right to say, ‘Now you recompense us for that.’ And they’re scared of that.”
That is not being scared - only an idiot would accept such terms. Finally we know why the Beatles have not made it onto iTunes. Hopefully, they will have dropped those ridiculous terms and we can have some Beatles on iTunes on Wednesday - but don’t hold your breath.
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