cheap 'legal' mp3s

www.allofmp3.com

The site isn't working properly at the moment because it just got /.ed, but basically you get 500 megs of music downloads for $5, and you can choose the format/bitrate. The site is authorised with the Russian version of the RIAA, and has been running for a couple of years. It's only 'sort of' legal because technically your countries version of the RIAA needs to have an agreement with this site as well (unless parallel music importing is legal in your country), but the upside is that you won't get sued for downloading from this site, unlike with kazaa.

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[edit] You can pay with paypal, so you don't even have to give them any of your details! [/edit]

What exactly are their criteria for suing people for downloading from KaZaA? Not that I use it, lol, I have eMule :biggrin: .. well, my brother does, I dont have it. I just mooch of his music downloads.

I must admit I'm curious too - I download a bit from it, though pretty rarely, but I do have a load of mp3s that I've downloaded before all the sueing seemed to begin.

They just look to sue those who have a large mp3 collection. That's really all there is to it. The RIAA is only looking to scare people away to prevent sharing, so they will randomly target anyone in an effort to convince people that it isn't really worth it.

Course the RIAA is stupid, because if it wasn't for my new MP3 collection I wouldn't have been introduced to two whole genres of music and wouldn't have made my last thirty or so cd purchases. :rolleyes:

I think the RIAA were just targetting people who were literally sharing; if you didn't share your music, they didn't go after you. Of course, it never actually worked anyway...it's like tape swapping and used CD stores, you just can't get rid of it so easily.

Hmmm I'd best stop sharing then :smile: I still think the idea of filesharing music is a good one though, its got me into rakes of bands I otherwise would never have heard of, and thats resulted in me buying more CDs. In fact, the only occasions I download a lot of music by a band is when I can't get the CD in this country (including mail order, that I can find), which happens more often than you may think.

I used to download music, but I tend to have m8s who have it on CD at uni, so theres no need to download. Often I only download to sample anyway, if I like 2 songs from the album I'll generally buy the album, otherwise I won't.

I like the hard copy of the CD with all the gubbinz. A mans CD collection says a lot about him as a person- if they are all pirated that says a lot :razz:

I like the hard copy of the CD with all the gubbinz. A mans CD collection says a lot about him as a person

The bigger the collection, the more they're compensating for something :biggrin:

I've downloaded probably around 20-30 albums. I've told myself I won't download any more, and that I'll buy all of these albums in the shop once I can. It just isn't as good, really.

Often in my case, I look at the CD in Much Music, and say, "Yea, I like that song, but I dont care for the other 12" so I'll download the one I want. Why pay for a CD when you only want one song?

Either way, when I do download, I store them in a non-shared folder. And yes, file sharing has also introduced me to alot of new music. In Flames, Kovonent, Deicide, Dido, etc.

Wild Card said:
What exactly are their criteria for suing people for downloading from KaZaA? Not that I use it, lol, I have eMule :biggrin: .. well, my brother does, I dont have it. I just mooch of his music downloads.

Emule eh? isnt that Edonkey else well??? i've got that but rarely use it, it doesnt have many servers.

if I like 2 songs from the album I'll generally buy the album, otherwise I won't.

Same for me, I downloaded 'Whisky In The Jar' by Metalica and a few days later I bought the album.

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I dont buy CDs. Never have, and probably never will, just because I know I can get the songs I want for free, and CDs are too expensive for me anyway :razz: