I have to say that given the choice of buying a track from some outfit that in no way benefits the original artists or just getting it via p2p, I'd go for the latter. Admittedly, there are probably many recording deals out there that mean that artists no longer benefit from sales of there work, but at least they got money originally and assumedly agreed to the detail in the first place (albeit possibly by failing to check the small print). However, I've just bought myself a copy of Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Collection, which has Sweet Home Alabama as the first track, and gets me another 16 tracks that I've never heard of. It's disappointing to find out that I don't seem to be able to just buy a track somewhere, but then I like buying albums anyway, I guess!
Max Jim Wrote: > allofmp3.com is quite a good site, and even if rumours of it being just > one big criminal enterprise were true I for one would rather be sending > money to the Russian mafia than to the RIAA. > > However you obtained your music there is not much chance of being > caught if you are not sharing it with others - note that by downloading > in a P2P program you are actually forced to upload, and thus sharing > with others. > > If the record company cannot provide you with a easy, reasonably priced > method of getting just 1 track in lossless FLAC quality then you will > either have to purchase lossy DRM crap or break copyright law. > > But breaking the law isn't necessarily going to make you go to hell, as > for instance you could be a Chinese citizen breaking the law by running > a free-speech website and would everyone on here frown at that? > > You can make yourself feel better by sending the artist the money > directly or donating to the artist's favourite charity. Either way, it > would be worth writing to the record company and artist explaining > (anonymously of course) why you felt there was no reasonable option > other than to do this. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
