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![]() "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... Anyone familiar with allofmymp3.com? It appears to be a Russian-based service where music may be downloaded for small sums of money, especially when compared to Apple's iTunes or Napster. Gets a little slow at certain times of day. At the point when you're ready to download, it gives you a choice of three quality levels. The best is CD quality, and the worst is pretty gnarly, but lots of people don't seem to notice. I haven't had much problem with the selection. |
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![]() "Harry Krause" wrote in message news ![]() Our music industry is nuts anyway. They assume too much about their customers. I use allofmp3 primarily to sample music. If I like it, I buy the real CD, mainly because I find that liner notes are often very informative. Or, if someone in my band wants us to learn a certain song, and I need it TODAY, I'll download it. |
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When the RIAA sends you a letter you can ask Steve Schear what to do.
"Harry Krause" wrote in message news ![]() Doug Kanter wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... Anyone familiar with allofmymp3.com? It appears to be a Russian-based service where music may be downloaded for small sums of money, especially when compared to Apple's iTunes or Napster. Gets a little slow at certain times of day. At the point when you're ready to download, it gives you a choice of three quality levels. The best is CD quality, and the worst is pretty gnarly, but lots of people don't seem to notice. I haven't had much problem with the selection. \ Thanks. There's not much about the service itself, or its ownership, or anything else on its web site. I did find this, though: Since November 2003 the web music merchant www.allofmp3.com, operated by the Russian company Media Services, has been openly selling some of the most popular western music at a fraction of the cost of widely touted American sites. Bottom Line it's Legal for US Citizens. Allofmymp3 sells the tracks by the megabyte ($.02 per mb) about $.12 per song Allofmp3 has signed agreements for this with Russian Organization for Multimedia & Digital Systems http://www.roms.ru Registration "According to their license allofmp3, has the right to use musical compositions by providing downloads. Under the license agreement Allofmp3 pays out fees to ROMS for downloaded materials that are subject to the Russian Federation Copyright And Related Rights Law. ROMS is a member of CISAC http://www.cisac.org - the International confederation of authors and composers societies. ROMS manages intellectual rights in the Russian Federation. All third party distributors licensed by ROMS are required to pay a portion of the revenue to the ROMS. ROMS in turn, is obligated to pay most of that money (aside from small portion it needs for operating expenses) to artists. Both Russian and foreign. This license is only supposed to allow content to be sold to Russians. The site doesn't appear to do non-Russian advertising and promotion, though they do have an English version of the site available (they say its to address problems with Russian language-encoding standards which existed they launched but that many Russian nationals living outside of the country prefer to use the English version for browsing). They claim its a site created for Russians but those who come to their site from abroad are welcome and are provided with full service. Sales to non-Russians are said to be 'insignificant' but I rather think its because their management has wisely chosen a Russian processor www.cyberplat.com that does not offer AllofMP3 direct access the information from user credit cards. They get only notifications about successful transactions. Plausible deniability is as smart in business as politics. The Music Industry claims that Allofmp3 is illegal but their own lawyers tell them "... the music industry doesn't have much chance in succeeding (if they attack these companies who are using music files on the Internet under current Russian laws)." Instead they are pushing for changes in Russian copyright law but progress is glacial. Chances that the loophole will be closed on short term are low and there is great resistance to changes. As for the legality of non-Russian clients downloading from allofmp3 this is country dependent. In countries with liberal copyright protections, like the Netherlands, downloading is legal. In countries with stricter copyright protections its less clear. MP3's, OGG's, etc are not illegal in the USA and therefore can be imported. There is also no law against importing music from other countries (including Russia). Because you are buying this legally in Russia and then importing to the USA, this should be 100% legit. The only applicable U.S. law appears to relate to the "Infringing importation of copies or phonorecords". But even this statute "...does not apply to importation, for the private use of the importer and not for distribution..." If MP3's, OGG's etc are in fact considered phonorecords, U.S. citizens can legally buy these as long if they are for private use and not for distribution. If MP3s, OGG's etc. are not considered phonorecords, no import laws apply. The sections of digital audio recording and sound recording have no mention of importation. Bottom line: Downloading from Allofmp3 is legal for U.S. Citizens, as long as the files are for private use and not for distribution." ~ Steve Schear - - - Not much in "the law" is that cut and dried, but it sure seems as if the service has some decent underpinnings. Interestingly, now that I've looked over the site, I find it has a nice selection of orchestral recordings of serious music not readily available in the USA, the pieces performed by top-drawer Russian orchestras and soloists. One piece I was looking for, a certain live performance by Richter of the original, non-orchestrated Pictures at an Exhibition, was not on the site, but a 1972 version performed by Horowitz was. |
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![]() "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... Doug Kanter wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message news ![]() Our music industry is nuts anyway. They assume too much about their customers. I use allofmp3 primarily to sample music. If I like it, I buy the real CD, mainly because I find that liner notes are often very informative. Or, if someone in my band wants us to learn a certain song, and I need it TODAY, I'll download it. Insane, indeed. The manufacturing costs for a CD are a small fraction of what it used to cost to manufacture an LP. The problem is, the music industry, like the movie industry, just got too damned greedy. We have several hundred CDs, but I've only purchased a few recently because of the pricing. Same with DVDs...I just wait for them to show up on the premium cable channels, and they always seem to, and faster than ever. Another problem with CDs...there rarely are more than three or four songs on a CD that I really like...the rest I listen to once and never listen to again. That's why I prefer downloading and paying for what I want. Three songs I like, even at 99 cents each via iTunes, is better than three tunes I like and 11 I don't, for $16.95 on a CD. The death of the "album" is at hand. |
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