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http://www.teleread.com/2009/01/08/o...-distribution/ BTW... there are proponents of DRM? Other than the copyright cartel? |
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A whois lookup on the domain places them in Cyprus. The actual servers may be hosted elsewhere. The site says "The activity of site [deleted] is carried out according to to the legislation of the license agreement N57/03F-10 of the Rightholders Federation for Collective Copyright Management of Works Used Interactively (NP "FAIR"). Service [deleted] pays full-scale author's royalties to owners of pieces of music, trade marks, names, slogans and other copyright objects used on the site." NP "FAIR" is a Russian organization intended to comply with applicable Russian laws. See http://simb.biz/index_eng.php.frame=...del_IV_eng.htm for the specific laws in question. It appears to be a reaction to the Russian allofmp3 site, which was selling a lot of music at prices undercutting iTunes, but while it claimed to be collecting royalties, it had no license agreements with the record labels, was not authorized to collect revenue for them, and was not actually paying royalties to the labels or the bands released by those labels. The existence of the site was an issue in Russia's admittance to the WTO in 2006. The site further claims "Service meets the requirements of the majority of the states of the Europe and the USA, although it is not possible to guarantee the legality of the work of Service in all States. In such rare instances the responsibility for use of Service lies with the user." So I'm forced to wonder if anyone actually making the music sold on the site sees a dime from sales through the site, and I'm certainly not going to assume their site verbiage will protect me if someone like the RIAA inquires about my purchases. They may say they're legal. The record industry may have a different opinion. They may be legal, but I'm not interested in being a potential test case. ______ Dennis Last edited by HarryT; 08-24-2010 at 09:58 AM. |
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The cynic in me suspects that Napster's sales are dropping and they think this might be a good way to boost sales.
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While I will download music from Amazon (320 bit rate), I'll often buy CDs and rip them (also at 320) just to get the album art/info. I will not buy DRMed music because I will play it on my computer with whatever player I choose and make back up copies. Same for e-books. I will buy the p-boo and chop and scan it before I will buy a DRMed copy.
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I thought ripping CDs was illegal in the UK?
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Could also be that they don't think their work is worth the price they're charging.
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tunebite is your friend for making non-drm'd copies of your legitimately owned drm'd music.
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My limited understanding (I don't know much about UK law) is that 'fair dealing' did not cover ripping CDs. Most of the links on a quick google search seem to indicate that ripping CDs is illegal in the UK.
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Wikipedia seems to think it's illegal. The BBC article that I found called it "technically copyright infringement" in 2007. Everyone openly does it - including the sale of equipment based on making and playing digital copies. Perhaps it's like recording TV onto VHS, which was technically illegal for some time IIRC.
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There is this official statement from the Intellectual Property Office which is pretty clear. No, you can't copy your own CDs onto your mp3 player.
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Defective by Design is:
Quote a broad-based anti-DRM campaign that is targeting Big Media, unhelpful manufacturers and DRM distributors. The campaign aims to make all manufacturers wary about bringing their DRM-enabled products to market. DRM products have features built-in that restrict what jobs they can do. These products have been intentionally crippled from the users' perspective, and are therefore "defective by design". UnquoteWell worth a look. |
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