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 :)"

Comments

Hmmmm...

[elmegil]

I dunno, having "Russia" and "legal" in the same sentence leaves me a bit ... skeptical.

Besides, in post-Soviet Russia, the songs MegaByte You!

Er....

Bandwidth testing

[tomknight]

And here's where we do them the service of testing their bandwidth ;-)

Tom.

you bastards

[jaxon6]

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.

Re:Seems legit on the surface.

[lovemayo]

Well, I could try... I know the "russian" up in the left corner means "russian" and the "english" next to it means "english"...

Who are "The MB"

[nutcracker666]

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.

Re:One of these days, Alice

[tbone1]

Umm, how do they sell stuff on the internet without charging money?

They'll make it up in volume.

Re:The price is right

[Anonymous Coward]

yes but I encode at 2048kbps.

Record Company Pays YOU

[handy_vandal]

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.

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 ... followed by the rest of the song.

Pepsi pays you a nickel (or whatever) for actually listening to the damned thing.

"4. PROFIT -- !!!"

-kgj

Re:Yes, rip-on-the-fly as well - hard disk is a ca

[micromoog]

And even this group of people probably forms a cache which feeds its misses as requests to the poor sods who have to run out into the Russian weather to chase down obscure CDs in the shops. :-)

They prob'ly just hit Kazaa for those.

Re:Dunno why no link

[guiscard]

Maybe the RIAA submitted the story to Slashdot to bring down the server?

Re:Dunno why no link

[TedCheshireAcad]

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!'

AllOfMP3 Top Ten

[telstar]

For anyone interested in grabbing AllofMP3's top-ten, I've compiled their current list.

10. Boris - Boris Sings the Blues
9. Svetlana - Oops, Svetlana did it again
8. Katerina Jones - Feels like Moscow
7. Natalya - Toxic ... Water
6. Igor - Looking For You ... on the Bread Line
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

Re:Dunno why no link

[ahaning]

Wayback Machine / Karma-Whoring link.