HandsOff
December 17th, 2005, 07:36 AM
I don't get out much, I only just found out. for the last four years, while people were debating P2P and the RIAA was running around suing 12 year olds, the smart people have been downloading high quality, unprotected, and seemingly legal music from this russian service for prices in the range of 6 cents per song, or 2 bucks for a typical CD.
I looked about on the internet to see if allofmp3 is legal, and as far as I can tell it is. They are following russian copyrite law, and the purchasers are entering into a legitimate transaction with the company.
Anyway, I'm sure some people will cry foul, but my feeling is that until some court finds otherwise, and this has been going on for years, it is legal.
I've got a large cd collection, anyways...maybe 1,000 CD's...but it would be nice to get the occasional illusive single.
As a consumer, I would never buy iTunes, or CD's with "DRM". If I pay for a song I expect to be able to play it however I like, and not have hidden programs installed on my computer (ala Sony protected cd's).
Just thought I'd pass it along, and see if there are anyone who knows this service to be illegal.
- HandsOff
I looked about on the internet to see if allofmp3 is legal, and as far as I can tell it is. They are following russian copyrite law, and the purchasers are entering into a legitimate transaction with the company.
Anyway, I'm sure some people will cry foul, but my feeling is that until some court finds otherwise, and this has been going on for years, it is legal.
I've got a large cd collection, anyways...maybe 1,000 CD's...but it would be nice to get the occasional illusive single.
As a consumer, I would never buy iTunes, or CD's with "DRM". If I pay for a song I expect to be able to play it however I like, and not have hidden programs installed on my computer (ala Sony protected cd's).
Just thought I'd pass it along, and see if there are anyone who knows this service to be illegal.
- HandsOff