Louisville Slugger Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3info.htm Dark Tip-Cheap MP3s-June 7written by Roman Loyola on Friday, June 04, 2004 Dark Tip: AllofMP3.com A legit music service, or a scam waiting to rip you off? Thank goodness the Cold War ended 14 years ago. The fall of a communist Soviet Union gave birth to the capitalist spirit in a reborn Russia. What does that mean to us, 14 years later? Dirt-cheap MP3 music! On today's episode of "The Screen Savers" Kevin takes a tour of Allofmp3, an online music service that could steal customers away from iTunes, Napster, and other services. Allofmp3 offers low, low prices an growing music library, and even free albums from well-known artists. They're slashing prices! ITunes: $.99 per song. Napster: $.99 per song. Wal-Mart: $.88 per song. Rhapsody: $.79. Complete albums from any of these services: $9.99 to $20. Allofmp3's pricing? They charge you per megabyte. OK, sounds all right, you say. But get this: you pay $.01 per megabyte. A typical 4-minute MP3 song encoded at 128KB costs about $.04. That's no misprint. To make the deal even sweeter, you have a choice of encoders: MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media, or MusePack. The catch llofmp3 is a Russian-based business. As you might expect, Russia has different laws regarding copyright. Allofmp3 has an agreement to sell music with the Russian Organization for Multimedia and Digital Systems which manages Russian copyright law. Online reports say that Allofmp3 is legitimate and acting legally under Russian laws. MuSeekster has done a bit of research on the Russian company, and has a comprehensive Allofmp3 review. Not so sure about giving your credit car number to a Russian company? So are we. But we couldn't find one complaint or claim of fraud on the Internet. In fact, what we mostly found were testimonials on Allofmp3's great service. What do you think? Have you used Allofmp3? Any problems? Let us know by posting in the message boards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbomonkeycock Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 I don't know what you mean by trustworthy, but a few friends have been downloading music non-stop from there and are very very happy, You can choose your bitrate and format, everything. However, when you come to the legality of it, there is a bit of a grey area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 :rolleyes: I think most things from Russia are knock-offs from what I've seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandMaster Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 yea damn those evil russians, always stealing stuff and nuking everyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louisville Slugger Posted June 7, 2004 Author Share Posted June 7, 2004 yea damn those evil russians, always stealing stuff and nuking everyone Oh please. So we are so innocent for nuking Japan..... :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted June 8, 2004 Veteran Share Posted June 8, 2004 I'm sure this service is legal if you are Russian and you live in Russia. I would expect that some western countries would think that you purchased stolen property since they don't recognise the Russian Copyright Authority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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