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Anyone try this or know someone who did? the link

its a music download service, like napster or itunes, but with a few enticing differences:

- you choose the format and bitrate encryption, from mp3 all the way up to .wav file, full cd quality

- pretty big collection of albums

- $0.01 per megabyte

the site linked above is a user review, but contains a link to allofmp3.
apparently it is totally legal if you are in Russia. definately interesting though.
 
I go to law school with a legal freak/silicon valley nerd. I mean, this guy knows every damn Napster-type case and makes my e commerce class painful with his superflous knowledge. He uses it, loves it, and believes it's perfectly legal.
 
thanks Dlev - thats the kind of info i was looking for. afaik, downloading (and paying for) songs from there is like buying the songs in russia, and importing them to the usa, which is not punisihable, right? i'm sure the riaa hates this, know about it, and are working on it, but i haven't seen any media attention given to this.
 
RIAA vs. Russian Mobsters. Good luck.

My friend uses it. At $0.01 per MB that is ridiculous. I don't trust it but he does and hooks me up.
 
Let me briefly go over US copyright law: There's a copyright on a sound recording that the record company owns and then a separate copyright on the musical composition that the writer owns. For the musical composition right, there is also a statute for mandatory cover licenses. The statute (and regulations) set the level of this mandatory cover license. No such mandatory licensing exists for sound recordings. Thus, the record companies can negotiate whatever they want.

Now this is the part that he explained to me.
In Russia, there is a mandatory licensing scheme for music on the books and obviously it's highly in favor of the consumer. Thus, when you pay whatever tiny amount per megabyte, you're paying the RIAA their ******* money, just at the level set legally by the Russian government.
 
Also, he uses his credit card and isn't worried about it. If you have an MBNA card (or many other big companies), they offer a service, MBNA's is called ShopSafe, where you use this little program of MBNA's that allows you to create a new number that is almost like a tiny debit card for that amount. So you'd use this program, tell it $10 and it would spit out a new credit card number. You then put in that number to pay. If it falls into the wrong hands, they can't charge anything over the balance left on that number.
 
Is $0.01 per MB really paying?
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CM -- That would be the .wav file size. The mp3 size would be somewhere around 3.5 MB / song. That means your "The Bends" would be around 40-something cents.
 
I downloaded 5 full albums last night for about 3 dollars. Takes a little time in that you have to right click and save target as 4 at a time.

Downloaded files 65

Total size 337.77 Mb (354180992 bytes)

Total sum $3.378
 
Been using it for over a year, it kicks ***. D/l'd about 2-300 albums so far. One thing, you may get a call from your credit card co. the first time you charge your account, they get suspicious about charging something from Russia.

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Man this thing is fast, I jacked up the number of similtaneous threads per download to 25 and it downloads a song in about 12 seconds.
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DLev - not to burst your bubble or anyone else's, but there is no way this is legal from a US copyright standpoint.

It is an awesome sight, however.
 
Curious were Loopy would come down on this. If it is legal and you are paying, I can't imagine how you could say anyone is "stealing" this content.
 
Not to derail the thread, but as a computer dummy, I am looking to convert all my wma files to mp3's. A quick google search turns up a bunch of software that costs about $20. Surely there is a free alternative...suggestions?

As you were.
 
I guess it would depend on what the American copyrights say about it. If they have no problem then it is grand. Sounds good but the legal aspects have prob. not been challenged yet, if they would be. So if it is not a crime in that country and it is purchased there by a person in whose country an act is illegal, well, it is still illegal. But this would be great if it is on the up and up. I may have found my happy medium.
 
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