Michaelwagner Wrote: > A word to the wise, or at least the wary. > > If you scan the forums, you'll find many posts about the legality (or > lack thereof) of allofmp3. > > And aside from the legal niceties, it isn't clear that the musicians > benefit from the sales on that site.
AllofMP3.com sells albums for £1, compared with iTunes' typical price of £7.99. You cant tell me the artist would get another £6 benefit out of it. Artists make their money out of airtime payments and merchandising anyway, its the record companies who make money on the sale of a CD. If you enjoy paying over the odds for music its your choice. Its a case of AllofMp3.com bringing the free market to the consumer and about time to! In addition, for your information; "A spokesman for the BPI told silicon.com that it won't be setting the lawyers on any UK users of site: "While it remains illegal to use the site, we aren't interested in taking users to task - what we are doing is targeting the site itself." In addition, to balance the argument; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/07/bpi_sues_allofmp3/ Enjoy! -- cparker ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cparker's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2083 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25158 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
