Piracy is a Competitor → Re: I will NEVER advocate stealing BUT

This is the classic arrogant shit Bush promotes - I don't want top see my tax to be spent on defending fuckin private industrial lobby organisations' interests.

Joining WTO has nothing to do with fuckin Recording Industry Ass of America and Motion Picture Ass of America, period.No, they are not. No matter how you look it at it, THEY ARE LEGAL.For you, perhaps but I want to have a CHOICE.

And Allofmp3.com gives me the choice of paying more for a FLAC or 320k mp3 compressed file.What an utter BS!

It's the stuidos and Recording Industry Ass of America and Motion Picture Ass of America, NOT THE ARTISTS, NOT THE SONGWRITERS BUT THE STUDIOS WHO WANTS TO KEEP THEIR RIDICULOUSLY HIGH PERCENTAGE! Most of the income goes to them, not for the artists.

Er... what does the President have to do with either the RIAA, MPAA, or the WTO? Oh, I'm sorry-- you were just trying to shoehorn your worthless political agenda into an intelligent discussion.

to just "repeat" on the last part of what you say. Yes money CD/Song sells mostly goes to the record companies and the Artist makes most of their money on tour. Which is why the smart artist have started their own record company b/c it allows them to get a bigger price of the CD/song sale

Umm what part you were unable to grasp thus misinterpreting?

Since you are a Spiderman fan, what would Spidey do? I doubt he'd buy your argument and haul you to jail.

He certainly wouldn't stand for the Recording Industry Ass of America and Motion Picture Ass of America but rather for the citizen who want s legal, affordable and non-crippled music instead of the current shitty quality, DRM-crippled, crazy expensive crap.

don't forget the sound quality of mp3's is lower then both vinyl and compact disc

allofmp3.com is NOT legal. PERIOD. Anyone that thinks otherwise is severely mentally handicapped. They wouldn't have the record industry trying to shut them down if they were legal since you kind of need the record industries permission to sell LEGAL music.Just because a thief offers you choices in the stolen property they sell doesn't mean it's still not stolen.

"don't forget the sound quality of mp3's is lower then both vinyl and compact disc"

Bull.

Vynil was recorded with "RIAA equalization" and you can tell when you play a file from vynil (never mind the pops and clicks). This can, of course, be dealt with with the right software, such as cool edit.

MP3 was not designed to be a direct competitor for CD's, obviously, since it is a compression scheme. However, once again software is your friend. Convert it to WAV at 48 Khz, process it with your software, then burn to .CDA format. Works quite well.

Ummm...in your zeal, you miss the point: They ARE CURRENTLY LEGAL, because it is CURRENTLY LEGAL TO DO WHAT THEY DO IN RUSSIA.

In any case, our laws mean squat in russia, regardless of if the RIAA/MPAA like it or not.

"Just because a thief offers you choices in the stolen property they sell doesn't mean it's still not stolen."

Since, under russian law they aren't thieves, it appears what they offer is not stolen. For all you really know about them, they could have just went out and bought CD'
s to rip. Obviously, a CD one has bought is not stolen.

It is Legal, do some research before posting drivel.

Are you RUSSIAN? It's LEGAL to gamble online if you are a Briton. Can you bet online now? Um no. So no they are not legal. If in some county it's legal for a 13 year girl to film porn according to you that means it's pefectly ok for you to view it. Once again NO. American laws may not apply to russian, but they apply to YOU. And it does apply to Russia because it's called FAIR TRADE. I guess since it's ok to sell pirated DVDs in China that means that not stealing either. And yes it is ok in China because they rarely if ever go after them. A law that's not enforced isn't much of a law is it?

I post the truth. Don't be jealous because you are ignorant. You are OBVIOUSLY pro-theft. Nice morals you have. Hope your children are proud of their theiving parent.

It's perfectly legal to buy a product from a website, wherever the site is located.

ok, I hate to debate details like this, but I feel like spouting off my opinion.

Yes, I think Vinyl sounds better in some ways than cd's, and ESPECIALLY Mpeg (moving PICTURE experts group..) layer 3 audio compressed format.

I still purchase vinyl records of music. There, I said it. Yes, it's true.

first, the "riaa curve" was designed to counterbalance the cut of the vinyl with playback equipment. you don't need software, you need a real (phono) pre-amp.

further reading can be found here: »www.enhancedaudio.com/eq ··· urve.htm

just a random pick from a search...

second, converting a compressed format, back to an uncompressed format does not magically re-create information that has been discarded due to compression... it is "lossy."

and finally, why would you convert to 48Khz? Cd audio standard is 44.1. You're making more work for your computer, reconverting it to a higher sample rate, just to reconvert it again to 44.1.

It is totally LEGAL to download *anything* in Canada..it is just illegal to *share* it. What is happening in Russia is *legal* according to *their* laws...maybe not ours.. Again..allofmp3 isn't going to stop Russia from entering the WTO.

I was going to add...music from allofmp3 was aquired legally and is sold legally...it is up to government to tax it in the form of customs...this income then could go to the artists. Just because it is cheaper doesn't make it illegal. I can buy cheap booze in the US...since US has little taxaton on their alcohol..compared to Canada. Does that mean that Canada should force the US to stop selling booze since it is a fraction of the cost that it is in Canada?? Of course not. Gas in Canada and the US is less then half then most industrialized nations...should the rest of the G7 countries force Canada and the US to raise costs to reflect their costs?? Of course not.

This whole issue is a "Customs" issue. The US can either block the website or have taxes paid on every song bought from a US customer.