Errandboy, what is your problem!?! Here you are again, claiming allofmp3.com is legal and pays artists royalties! Wake up!!
What is it with you...do you work for them? Trying to justify your own purchases there?
Just because you found some website that says they're legal and pay artists royalties does not make it true. Bet you there are more web sites saying they're illegal than that say they're legal. May I refer you to my previous comment on this subject for more detail, and to help you understand the situation in Russia a bit better. http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=175283&c id=14600862
They are illegal and do not pay royalties. Got it?
It's disingenuous to endorse allofmp3.com in any way.
Russia is in many senses a very young country in the western understanding of the word, one having sophisticated market economic structures and regulations. Their legislators are not in a position to come up with sensible copyright laws of any sort now; they have more important things to worry about. They are evolving rapidly though.
allofmp3.com is an aberration, and unless Russia politically chooses to annoy western content-creating nations, they will deal with it sooner or later.
I thought the point of this eternal Slashdot discussion was to examine sensible alternatives to the old record company business model which we all here agree must change.
allofmp3.com is not sensible. At all.
Oh, and these $3 albums you talk about being available in Moscow, they are pirated. When I've bought (or had bought for me) licensed proper copies, they cost similar to western countries. Even Russia's homegrown content, when you buy it licensed and unpirated, costs the same. For example, a Mescherin album recently bought in Moscow (he's a wacky Russian early synth user/composer) cost $20. A DVD of the wild Russian sixties sci-fi movie classic "Planeta Bur" (I think it's usually translated as "Planet of Storms") bought in November cost about the same. For most music and video though, it's simply easier to find pirated copies, they're on sale everywhere.
[I lived in Russia for most of the 90s and still travel there, that's why I make sweeping statements about the place]
Great post...spot on.
Im from the UK, and the hatred discussed here is spilling over onto us too now, because we're friends of the US. Please, yanks, put pressure on your representatives to do something positive in the Middle East.
Why do you suck up to Israel so? I just don't understand it.
Use Netfone, http://www.haxial.com
It's encrypted, great quality, and really cross-platform -Mac OS X, Windoze.
Start-up delay is only penalty for not paying ($20) for it.
I've been using it for ages: it's great.
I operate mine at speed on my motorbike through a thick leather jacket's pocket. Works fine. I can pause or skip to next song very effectively.
That's why the buttons are so big and far apart from each other. For this kind of tomfoolery.
I think a potential problem with their energy use calculation of machines running the software is that it does not include monitors' use of energy.
Most people have a screensaver running rather than having monitor set to sleep.
Don't monitors use as much or more energy as CPUs?
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I've had mine since June too, 3GS launch day, and I've used 470 MB down and 28 MB up since then. Massively more via WiFi though, obviously.
Errandboy, what is your problem!?!
c id=14600862
Here you are again, claiming allofmp3.com is legal and pays artists royalties!
Wake up!!
What is it with you...do you work for them? Trying to justify your own purchases there?
Just because you found some website that says they're legal and pay artists royalties does not make it true. Bet you there are more web sites saying they're illegal than that say they're legal.
May I refer you to my previous comment on this subject for more detail, and to help you understand the situation in Russia a bit better.
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=175283&
They are illegal and do not pay royalties. Got it?
Thanks
It's disingenuous to endorse allofmp3.com in any way. Russia is in many senses a very young country in the western understanding of the word, one having sophisticated market economic structures and regulations. Their legislators are not in a position to come up with sensible copyright laws of any sort now; they have more important things to worry about. They are evolving rapidly though. allofmp3.com is an aberration, and unless Russia politically chooses to annoy western content-creating nations, they will deal with it sooner or later. I thought the point of this eternal Slashdot discussion was to examine sensible alternatives to the old record company business model which we all here agree must change. allofmp3.com is not sensible. At all. Oh, and these $3 albums you talk about being available in Moscow, they are pirated. When I've bought (or had bought for me) licensed proper copies, they cost similar to western countries. Even Russia's homegrown content, when you buy it licensed and unpirated, costs the same. For example, a Mescherin album recently bought in Moscow (he's a wacky Russian early synth user/composer) cost $20. A DVD of the wild Russian sixties sci-fi movie classic "Planeta Bur" (I think it's usually translated as "Planet of Storms") bought in November cost about the same. For most music and video though, it's simply easier to find pirated copies, they're on sale everywhere. [I lived in Russia for most of the 90s and still travel there, that's why I make sweeping statements about the place]
Damn straight Dan. Growth through piracy. And it's Apple's turn now. That is exactly what I reckon. And it could very well be an extremely big deal.
Great post...spot on. Im from the UK, and the hatred discussed here is spilling over onto us too now, because we're friends of the US. Please, yanks, put pressure on your representatives to do something positive in the Middle East. Why do you suck up to Israel so? I just don't understand it.
Use Netfone, http://www.haxial.com It's encrypted, great quality, and really cross-platform -Mac OS X, Windoze. Start-up delay is only penalty for not paying ($20) for it. I've been using it for ages: it's great.
I operate mine at speed on my motorbike through a thick leather jacket's pocket. Works fine. I can pause or skip to next song very effectively. That's why the buttons are so big and far apart from each other. For this kind of tomfoolery.
this post is really getting on my nerves he repeats it everywhere
I think a potential problem with their energy use calculation of machines running the software is that it does not include monitors' use of energy. Most people have a screensaver running rather than having monitor set to sleep. Don't monitors use as much or more energy as CPUs?