After a federal judge issued a temporary order against BlueBeat parent Media Rights Technologies instructing the company to cease and desist the streaming and/or selling of Beatles tracks, the Wall Street Journal’s Ethan Smith interviewed attorney Archie Robinson, who’s defending MRT CEO Hank Risan. Robinson told the presumably bewildered reporter that Risan had developed a system called “psychoacoustic simulation,” enabling him to sell music that sounds identical to recordings without actually infringing on copyrights. “My client is a genius who is very well versed in psychoacoustics and has been studying this field for years,” Robinson said in a telephone interview. “And we believe he’s got a method of transmitting sound recordings into a virtual 3-D environment that approximates as closely as possible a live performance and…that’s why we believe that the downloads are not infringing.” (via)
The mp3’s have since been taken down so now I can actually post this. Emphasis mine.