Can I buy & d/l high quality mp3's WITHOUT DRM?

[mjrpes3]

I use www.emusic.com and think it's great. It's a subscription service, around $.25 per track. There's no mainstream but I've found tons and tons of good independent artists through it. And the collection of jazz is first rate, too.

 

[Sureshot324]

Originally posted by: TallBill
allofmp3 ftw

That site doesn't give one penny to the artists or the RIAA. It's legal in russia because there is a loophole "allowing phonograms to be performed publicly without the authorisation of the copyright owner for broadcasting and cable transmission." Internet downloads fall under this description.

You may as well just download from P2P, since you're not supporting the artist either way.

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: Sureshot324

Originally posted by: TallBill
allofmp3 ftw

That site doesn't give one penny to the artists or the RIAA. It's legal in russia because there is a loophole "allowing phonograms to be performed publicly without the authorisation of the copyright owner for broadcasting and cable transmission." Internet downloads fall under this description.

You may as well just download from P2P, since you're not supporting the artist either way.

I really don't understand why philosophically why people make this argument. The end user is not to blame here, but rather the law. It would be like making P2P legal here, then getting onto people for doing it. Now, I've never used allofmp3.com - but if it is legal in Russia, why down it?

 

[Sureshot324]

Originally posted by: episodic

Originally posted by: Sureshot324

Originally posted by: TallBill
allofmp3 ftw

That site doesn't give one penny to the artists or the RIAA. It's legal in russia because there is a loophole "allowing phonograms to be performed publicly without the authorisation of the copyright owner for broadcasting and cable transmission." Internet downloads fall under this description.

You may as well just download from P2P, since you're not supporting the artist either way.

I really don't understand why philosophically why people make this argument. The end user is not to blame here, but rather the law. It would be like making P2P legal here, then getting onto people for doing it. Now, I've never used allofmp3.com - but if it is legal in Russia, why down it?

I guess it all depends on your reason to pay for downloads.

If your reason is to pay the artists for the music they're providing you, there's obviously no reason to use allofmp3.

If your reason is you don't want to break the law, well, allofmp3 is a grey area, especially if you're in the US. The RIAA claims they are illegal. The reality is international copywrite laws have not been adaquetly revised to take the internet into account.

If your reason is that it is more convenient than P2P, then it may make sense. However, unlike p2p you have to wait for them to encode it in your format of choice, so imo it's easier to use p2p if you just want 128k - 256k mp3s.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: episodic

Originally posted by: Sureshot324

Originally posted by: TallBill
allofmp3 ftw

That site doesn't give one penny to the artists or the RIAA. It's legal in russia because there is a loophole "allowing phonograms to be performed publicly without the authorisation of the copyright owner for broadcasting and cable transmission." Internet downloads fall under this description.

You may as well just download from P2P, since you're not supporting the artist either way.

I really don't understand why philosophically why people make this argument. The end user is not to blame here, but rather the law. It would be like making P2P legal here, then getting onto people for doing it. Now, I've never used allofmp3.com - but if it is legal in Russia, why down it?

You like an artist's music, but see nothing wrong with taking it and paying them nothing? Most artists are not mansion-living multi-millionaires, so they really could use the royalties.

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: episodic

Originally posted by: Sureshot324

Originally posted by: TallBill
allofmp3 ftw

That site doesn't give one penny to the artists or the RIAA. It's legal in russia because there is a loophole "allowing phonograms to be performed publicly without the authorisation of the copyright owner for broadcasting and cable transmission." Internet downloads fall under this description.

You may as well just download from P2P, since you're not supporting the artist either way.

I really don't understand why philosophically why people make this argument. The end user is not to blame here, but rather the law. It would be like making P2P legal here, then getting onto people for doing it. Now, I've never used allofmp3.com - but if it is legal in Russia, why down it?

You like an artist's music, but see nothing wrong with taking it and paying them nothing? Most artists are not mansion-living multi-millionaires, so they really could use the royalties.

I just see nothing wrong with following a law. Everyone gets upset when people break laws and holler about judicial activism, but the second a law benefits a person, then omg. Ethical relativism. . .

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: goku

Originally posted by: igowerf

Originally posted by: thatsright

Originally posted by: Baked
Ummm... buy the CD?

If I've never heard em before, I'll probaby hit the 1/12 rule. In that the hook is 1 song, with 12 other P.O.S songs added for filler.

I do have a lot of cd's ripped in 320kb mp3, or just straight copy of WAV.

Why not just use a lossless format like FLAC?

FLAC works real well on my ipod.