MP3 Sites...

[Guinness]

It's come to my attention lately that there are Russia-based sites selling music on mp3 for pittence without relinquishing any royalties to bands or labels. The most famous is <certainwebsite> but I've come across one lately selling:

SFTDF for a mere $1.88 FOR THE FULL ALBUM :!:

The WHOLE divine Comedy back catalogue

Oppenheimer and various other artists

I'm not going to encourage this by mentioning the site's name but I urge people not to use sites like these. Believe me the artists and small labels see NOTHING of the little money they charge, it all goes into their back pocket, never mind that they've no right to do it. Unfortunately it's legal in Russia although Illegal in the rest of the world.

And it's not like no one's using it, I stumbled across the site while looking up Duke Special in google and it ranked pretty highly...

[rusty66]

Conor, you're a big chunk of geekiness aren't ya

[Fintan]

Hehe he is...just slightly! :wink:

[arginite]

old new!!! lol

careful of em though.. not all them are reliable!!!

[Guinness]

Originally Posted by katiec

careful of em though.. not all them are reliable!!!

Don't use them period if you have any respect for the artist and music that u listen to...

This sort of discussion has been talked about by everyone at one time or another with the whole "CD copying" fiasco and not adhearing to copyright laws. (Fair enough you can listen to a friends CD and then if you like it go out and give the artist the recognition they deserve, but not buying a full album from Russians and them giving you the entire booklet, front and back covers and CD print)

I just don't know how this can be seen as totally acceptable by the Russian government and how they intend on keeping the music buisness alive even if it does turn corrupt at certain times.