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Russian Music Site Offering Legal Songs By The MB
An anonymous reader writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting on a Russian Music site that is offering legal digital music by the MB. The site apparently has a license from the Russian Music authorities to legally distribute songs for a fraction of the price of what is being offered by iTunes and others. The report from SMH is here. Amazingly, the site offers files in any format and encoding you choose and rips it on the fly. Notifications by email follow when the songs are ready for download. Sounds a little to good to be true :)"
Besides, in post-Soviet Russia, the songs MegaByte You!
Er....
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Tom.
Oh arse
I'm able to buy goods and services from wherever it suits me.
Plus you aren't breaking the law cause it's legal in the place you ordered from! I'm still waiting for my marijuana from Amsterdam though...
Oh you rat bastards. I thought I had a good thing going. I was getting all the music I wanted for cheap, and the site was under the radar enough not to upset the sue-happy music bizfolk. Now my speeds are going to be shot, the company is going to be closed, and I'll have to go back to buying my four cds a year. So, once again slashdot screws me. To that I say fuck you very much.
Oh ya, I almost forgot. I found out about them from a slasdot post of somebodys. So, uhh, forget what I just said.
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Well, I could try... I know the "russian" up in the left corner means "russian" and the "english" next to it means "english"...
I am afraid I am too old to have heard of "The MB" so why would I want their music ? Are they one of those new-fangled rap / hip-hop groups ? All I can think of is The Moody Blues.
If Rocky and Bullwinkle has taught me anything, the text is a little too good. Too many uses of the words 'a' and 'the' -- just doesn't sound intimidating with thick accent.
>You knew that one of these days record companies
>would "get it" and find a way to sell their wares
>over the internet. Now I await them finding a way
>to do it without charging money.
Umm, how do they sell stuff on the internet without charging money?
Wow, You say I get 19 cds for just a penny!?!? How can I go wrong!
They'll make it up in volume.
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yes but I encode at 2048kbps.
The songs have all been dubbed into Russian!
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You knew that one of these days record companies would "get it" and find a way to sell their wares over the internet. Now I await them finding a way to do it without charging money.
... followed by the rest of the song.
Better yet, the record company should pay YOU (yes, in Soviet Russia, etc. etc.) to listen.
Example:
You download the latest hit from Britney Spears. (I'll repeat: "you download", not me.)
About halfway through the song, there's an ad for Pepsi
Pepsi pays you a nickel (or whatever) for actually listening to the damned thing.
"4. PROFIT -- !!!"
-kgj
-kgj
They prob'ly just hit Kazaa for those.
Maybe the RIAA submitted the story to Slashdot to bring down the server?
No, the songs just MegaByte.
Their HTTP 200 error message owns, though. Instead of telling you to 'try again later' its like 'please refresh! we love getting out ass pounded into the floor!'
For anyone interested in grabbing AllofMP3's top-ten, I've compiled their current list.
... Water ... on the Bread Line
10. Boris - Boris Sings the Blues
9. Svetlana - Oops, Svetlana did it again
8. Katerina Jones - Feels like Moscow
7. Natalya - Toxic
6. Igor - Looking For You
5. Leonid - Damita Leonid
4. Yuri - Yuri, Unplugged
3. Karina - 99 Bottles of Vodka
2. Sonya - The Red Album
1. 50 Rubles - Get Warm or Die Tryin
Wayback Machine / Karma-Whoring link.
Withdrawal before climax is very ineffective and those who try this are usually called "parents."
Because of course we all know that people who use stolen credit cards would never just download their music off a P2P, they want to pay for legitimate copies.