Bless those Russians.

[tisl]

I ran into this today and I've never been so happy about a site before.

Basically, you buy credit. The minimum is $10. Then you download mp3s at the quality that you want. I'm downloading a 10 song album @ 128kbps for $0.734. This is a lot cheaper than that iTunes shit and it's also better because you don't get that copyright protection shit. You get the mp3s, you do whatever the hell you want to do with them.

From the wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allofmp3)
As of January 15, 2005, the basic price for one gigabyte of downloaded music or video is 20 United States dollars.

There's even a client to download all the songs automatically, instead of having to download each one individually. Russia is my new favorite country because they made this.

http://allofmp3.com

[RADiator]

Vladimir Dragunov, admitted in an interview with The Register that because of the structure of Russian copyright law, successful litigation against AllofMP3 appears unlikely. Haha! Can’t touch this!
It for some reason reminds me of that robbery story which occurred in Moscow. When a couple of people with construction equipment rolled up to the bank, just tore the ATM machine right out of the wall and drove away.
I don’t know why I’m reminded of just that story may be for the likewise radical approach I don’t know.

[amirin]

does the money reaches the artists (hahahaha) when you buy from allofmp3?

[wmgreer]

Interesting.

[dimsum411]

does the money reaches the artists (hahahaha) when you buy from allofmp3?

I highly doubt it.

[Hobbes874]

I've put about 30 bucks into Allofmp3 and it hasn't failed me yet.

[Striker]

Wow, that is awesome.

[halomizer]

limewire = free

[iplayguitar]

imesh and tunebite = $1 a month unlimited downloads.

[Dark_Swordmaster]

I've known about it but I just haven't done anything...

limewire = fucked. Mmm, virii and falty files! Yum!

Seriously, AllofMP3 has quality, legal, and reliable shit. So I'm told be the 30 people I know that use it.

[Odm]

I've known about it but I just haven't done anything...

limewire = fucked. Mmm, virii and falty files! Yum!

Seriously, AllofMP3 has quality, legal, and reliable shit. So I'm told be the 30 people I know that use it.I don't download all that much, but I haven't had any trouble with limewire so far. Then again, I never had trouble with kazaa lite either. What I don't get is how paying for songs of questionable legality is better than downloading songs of no legality for free.

[RADiator]

Legality is legality. Questionable or not is arguable. Illegality however is an un-debatable fact.
The difference is measured in years (of imprisonment) and hundreds of thousands (UED, EUR, SEK take your pick). While in the first case it equals none in the second it just depends on severity of the said illegal act.

[Odm]

Legality is legality. Questionable or not is arguable. Illegality however is an un-debatable fact.
The difference is measured in years (of imprisonment) and hundreds of thousands (UED, EUR, SEK take your pick). While in the first case it equals none in the second it just depends on severity of the said illegal act.As far as I'm aware, it's the sharing of digital content that the RIAA sues for. Assuming they're still bothering to do that, when they're not trying to enact ridiculous laws (http://techdirt.com/articles/20060120/1744211_F.shtml). According to your own idea of how legality is measured, downloading music is essentially legal. But I suppose if you're worried about being sued using their service makes sense.

[Dark_Swordmaster]

Meh, I had a bad experience (namely worms, trojans, and spyware upon the FIRST LAUNCHING) of Limewire...

[RADiator]

According to your own idea of how legality is measured, downloading music is essentially legal.Is it really such a revelation though? Be it otherwise places such as say iTunes Music Store and MusicNow would never exist to begin with and prosecution of AllofMP3 wouldn’t even be a matter of debate.

But I suppose if you're worried about being sued using their service makes sense.Why thank you. Good to know I’m still able to make at least some kind of sense. I’m not worried though since I don’t intend to be purchasing anything from them. After discovering the pleasures of Last.fm I doubt I'll be going back to the conventional approach of listening to music.

[Odm]

Is it really such a revelation though? Be it otherwise places such as say iTunes Music Store and MusicNow would never exist to begin with and prosecution of AllofMP3 wouldn’t even be a matter of debate.By downloading I meant downloading illegally. The point I was trying to make is that even with the RIAA suing people for filesharing you A) are extremely unlikely to get caught and B) can avoid being prosecuted if you don't share much. It's not a concern for me either, and not just because I live outside of the RIAA's influence.

Why thank you. Good to know I’m still able to make at least some kind of sense. I’m not worried though since I don’t intend to be purchasing anything from them. After discovering the pleasures of Last.fm I doubt I'll be going back to the conventional approach of listening to music.Last.fm? I've never heard of that, but it sounds interesting...

[RADiator]

Ok it’s late and I'm somewhat tired so I’m going to go ahead and end this debate on the following note. The note being a link to the last.fm AT group:

http://www.last.fm/group/Actiontrip

[Dark_Swordmaster]

Off:

Bless Those Russians pt. 2!

Linky! (http://www.m90.org/index.php?id=10728)

[absolute_deviation]

pretty sweet. my uni (stanford) is providing all its students with a free subcriptio to yahoo music engine. YME+tunebite = shit load of free legal music. Plus i just got my free video ipod today from one of those referral sites. i can't quite seem to fill up the 60 gigs on there. FUCKING ROCKS!!!

[Potater]

Music, what?

Bless Russia for their women.

[i‏hateyou]

Haha, paying for music...