dae3dae3;148101 Wrote: > Many people want cheap music and evidently don't mind funding the > Russian mafia. It makes them feel like they're not stealing if they > pay somebody for it. > > (Putting on flame suit)
Russian mafia? that sounds like something an RIAA spokesperson would say! Is there any evidence to support that? You may view using Allofmp3 as wrong from a moral standpoint, as the bands get little money from it. But then even many American (and British) corporations, such as Nike and McDonalds operate in even more imoral ways. Yet it seen as un American to not buy from them. >From a legal point of view, it has not been proven to be illegal, dispite constant investigations. The US authorities have consistantly failed to shut them down. Its not illegal to purchace the music over there and its not illegal to import music, the RIAA and telling lies. There will always be ways around the payment system, but the only feasible way to stop people using it is to bully the ISPs into blocking access. It surely cant be long before they do. It might be wrong wrong in some ways to use it, but thats a moral choice which people cant make there own mind up over. Heavy handed restrictive DRM is just as wrong imo. -- autopilot *SlimServer Version:* 6.5 - Windows XP. *Amp:* Cambridge Audio 640a (living room) / Denon MD30 (bedroom). *Speakers:* Mission 701's (living room) / Kef Cresta 1's (bedroom). *Remote:* T-Mobile MDA Vario / Sony PSP / Cambridge Audio Explorer (IR). *Clients:* 1 Squeezebox3 + Softsqueeze. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ autopilot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28858 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
