allofmp3.com illegal..

[kronas]

people in britain are being warned that the russian based website allofmp3.com is infact not licensed to sell its mp3 downloads, the BPI has stated that the site is indeed illegal and on going legal steps are being taken in russia to shut the site down.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5051826.stm

i always knew that website was suspicious!

[handyman]

I always knew the web site was illegal.

Still I'm not sure how they can shut it down given Russia's dubious copyright laws (or lack of them).

Not under Russian law it isnt and in there terms and condition they state that they are not responsable for other countries laws

And the latest court cases were thrown out because criminal law in Russia does not cover somethign that isnt a physical product.

[Druchii]

I've seen alot of people with that tagged at the end of their songs... Makes alot of sense now!

[jrhnewark]

I'm pretty sure it's not illegal under Russian law. And I'm pretty sure when I purchase a track from them, I'm to all intents and purposes importing it for Russian.

Anything from the BPI comes with a tonne of salt.

At the end of the day the only way the music industry will ever combat piracy is to bring there prices down to a fair price.I would buy cds if they were cheap when there first released say 2.99-3.99 maybe less cuz sales would rocket imo.But while there money grabbing barstewards then im gonna be a leech

[littld]

There are no good and legal download services anyway.

If you download any music it comes with DRM - reinstall Windows and cross fingers and hope you can still access it.

Copy to a device to play it - probably won't work.

So you have the crazy situation where people use Windows to burn to CD and then rip back from CD thus removing the DRM.

I don't see how any of this helps to reduce piracy - just annoys people who are prepared to pay.

I can't wait for the BPI to be told they can't change international law on imports!

[Druchii]

Originally Posted by littld

There are no good and legal download services anyway. If you download any music it comes with DRM - reinstall Windows and cross fingers and hope you can still access it. Copy to a device to play it - probably won't work. So you have the crazy situation where people use Windows to burn to CD and then rip back from CD thus removing the DRM. I don't see how any of this helps to reduce piracy - just annoys people who are prepared to pay. I can't wait for the BPI to be told they can't change international law on imports!

Spot on, i've lost countless songs to re-installing windows

Hence why i just download songs i've already bought at osme point in time.

[Damien]

Originally Posted by Druchii

Spot on, i've lost countless songs to re-installing windows

Hence why i just download songs i've already bought at osme point in time.

If you got them on iTunes fire off a email to support telling them what happened and you will get the songs back.

[Druchii]

Originally Posted by Damien

If you got them on iTunes fire off a email to support telling them what happened and you will get the songs back.

Cool, except i had the Cd at one point and ripped using the old version of Media Player. God knows where my CD went :S

I lost quite a few in the move from Sheffield to Donny.

[Damien]

oh ok. I thought you meant downloaded ones

[MadGamer]

Originally Posted by Damien

If you got them on iTunes fire off a email to support telling them what happened and you will get the songs back.

Hey good point, so say if i forgot to upto my Pod, they can provide me with the songs from x number of days ago free of charge?

[ntl customer]

Originally Posted by littld

There are no good and legal download services anyway.

If you download any music it comes with DRM - reinstall Windows and cross fingers and hope you can still access it.

Copy to a device to play it - probably won't work.

So you have the crazy situation where people use Windows to burn to CD and then rip back from CD thus removing the DRM.

I don't see how any of this helps to reduce piracy - just annoys people who are prepared to pay.

I can't wait for the BPI to be told they can't change international law on imports!

And also, add to that the fact that all this burning to CD and ripping back business is lowering audio quality even further. For those of us that care about our audio quality, this makes a bad situation worse - transcoded files from what is already low bit rate compressed audio into another compressed format - or simply huge wave files that take up more space, but with no more quality. This is why, under the current situation I refuse to buy anything from iTunes/Napster and its ilk - if I want to buy music on the internet then it's got to be the best quality, not this mushy crap, and uncompressed. Do they seem to think we all have cloth ears or something??

It's really annoying for us people who want decent quality audio, not some low bitrate slop that's served up by the music industry. If we want to buy something then we'll either have to fork out for the album or single, which let's face it isn't always cheap. And we can't pick a-la-carte, so if we want one track, we'll have to buy the whole damn album or CD single.

I don't think it does the artist's work any justice either - after all, why should their works be delivered in an inferior format that provides low audio quality.

[Damien]

Originally Posted by MadGamer

Hey good point, so say if i forgot to upto my Pod, they can provide me with the songs from x number of days ago free of charge?

If you have brought songs off the iTunes Music Store and then lost them. Apple are likely to replace them free of charge.

They wont replace songs on iTunes there were not brought off the music store.

[MadGamer]

Originally Posted by Damien

If you have brought songs off the iTunes Music Store and then lost them. Apple are likely to replace them free of charge.

They wont replace songs on iTunes there were not brought off the music store.

Cool thanks for that.