At 05:31 PM 1/18/2004, you wrote:
quoted 12 lines I would really like to know how you can make such a statement. Do you have
>I would really like to know how you can make such a statement. Do you have
>anything to back that claim up ? How do you know that site is not paying
>some RIAA like organisation in Russia that makes selling the content legal
>in Russia ? In Germnay for example it is perfectly legal for somebody to
>buy a CD, make a copy and give it to somebody else for free. The artists
>still gets paid. How ? Every recordable medium in Germany is taxed. This
>tax is collected by the GEMA (a RIAA like organisation) and gets back to
>the record industry and the artists. I couldn't agree more with you that
>Warp is doing the right thing by giving half of their proceeds to the
>artists. This alone makes me want to use their service. The two reasons
>why I'll never buy anything from iTunes is that they use DRM and that 99%
>of the money paid goes to the record companies not the artist.
According to their "about us" page (here:
http://stat.allofmp3.com/help.shtml?terms=on&help=on), they state that they
use some obscure russian license for distributing work. A search for that
license and its details leads nowhere, except here:
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'All the materials in the MediaServices projects are available for
distribution through Internet according to license # LS-3 -02-36 of the
Russian Multimedia and Internet Society. Under the license terms,
MediaServices pays license fees for all the materials subject to the Law of
the Russian Federation "On Copyright and Related Rights". All the materials
are available solely for personal use and must not be used for further
distribution, resale or broadcasting.'
All I could come up with when I googled "Russian Multimedia and Internet
Society" (quotes ensuring it search for that term exactly) were pages
asking if allofmp3.com was legit, leading me to agree with mroop, zippy and
ac-x. The site isn't legal and by purchasing music from this site you are
giving your money to Russian criminals exploiting artists rather than
American criminals exploiting artists.
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From this site:
http://www.boycottriaa.com/article/8725
Especially telling is the first line of the first page above states:
You agree with the fact that you are not able to use and even to download
audio and video materials from Allofmp3.com catalogue if it is in the
conflict with legislation of your country. Allofmp3.com Administration is
unable to control all Allofmp3.com users, therefore the users are
responsible for usage of the materials represented on the Site.
Which basically means that if you are a russian citizen, you're in the
clear, but you need to research this apparently non-existent law from this
group known as the "russian multimedia and internet society," whom exist
solely through allofmp3.com and a few sister sites. Do they get paid? No
doubt. Does that money ever get outside of those people's
mitts? Doubtful, and I believe the burden of proof is on those who claim
it *is* something, not those who throw it into doubt.
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