My understanding is that it is legal in the USSR but that the legality in the UK is undetermined.
I also believe that they do pay musical royalties to the Russian music federation just that it is not very much. According to the Sydney Morning Herald they have been investigated by the authorities in Russia and found not guilty of infringing copyright. I have used them a bit over the past 18 months (mainly for copy protected CDs) and not had any problems with quality or had any dodgy credit card transactions. It is important to note that as max said the artists will not be getting fair compensation for the music and that it is effectively helping kill music. However until such point whereby I can be assured that a CD I purchase in the high street can be ripped and played on my SB2 I will carry on the using it. -- mattybain "After intensive investigation (comma) of the markings on the alien pod (comma) it has become clear (comma) to me (comma) that we are dealing (comma) with a species of awesome intellect (colon)." "Good. Perhaps they might be able to give you a hand with your punctuation." - Rimmer and Holly ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mattybain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18214 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
