Whats the best Payable, Download MP3 site?Music 

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Just thinking about becoming a member at one of these pay sites. When the law went into effect, I stoped downloading music. Now I am out of the share scene, and I just wanted your opinion on the site you use.

Any recomadations? Any sites I should stay away from? Thanks!
 
I know there is a legal pay site that you pay by file size. It's something like one cent for every meg. A friend of mine recommended it and it was also mention in a thread similar to this one. The name is just eluding me right now.
 
in my opinion, any site where you have to pay to download music is a waste of money.

get soulseek. i think the website is like, slsk.net.org or something weird.

its a peer-to-peer but technically its a legal site because it was set up for bands and artists to get their music heard.
 
P2P really isn't legal per se, you are still getting music without paying for it. It's like copying movies, you still bought it but it isn't legal to copy it.
 
BlazinXtreme
P2P really isn't legal per se, you are still getting music without paying for it. It's like copying movies, you still bought it but it isn't legal to copy it.
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P2P is legal, it's just that 99.9 percent of users abuse the services, transmitting files that they don't have the right to.

Actually it is legal to copy movies that you personally own, as long as they don't find themselves in other people's hands.

Magic, I'd say if you plan on buying alot of music you should find a place that has monthly rates, as opposed to the a la carte systems that places like itunes use. Then again if you want permanent possesion of those songs I believe you have to keep subscribed in the system, which you may not want to do.
 
Many pay sites that give you the idea that they're legal, are illegal. For example there's this Russian site asking just a little fee to give you access to albums (of mostly American or European artists). The only reason why they can do that is because the Russian police is as corrupt as it gets, they probably send Mr Inpectorovski on vacation of some of your money and don't get busted.


The only legal mp3 sites are stores like iTunes and a couple of others. All the other ones are as illegal as p2p sharing, you can usually tell by the price. If it costs only a fraction of a regular cd, you know it's illegal. If you're getting illegal songs why pay a little for them when you can get those for free?


I download everything illegally, BUT on the other hand I do go out to the cd-store and buy the actual albums when I like what I heard. Even legal mp3's are a waste of money to me anyway. I rather pay a little extra to get a printed cd with booklet/cover and everything. Because of these downloads I probably buy more music than I would have otherwise. Unfortunately not everyone does it this way, making it a main target for the music industry to shut file sharing systems down.
 
Well I want to use it because I think they a little bit cheaper then buying a whole new album, and I am just to lazy and forget to remember what I want when I am at the store. I want to be able to think of a song/group when i am driving home from work, get on the pay site and download their music. I think it will help me obtain a good cd collection. I just don't want to get busted while trying to do it.

I'll look into a monthly service I guess. Maybe Itunes.
 
I would reccomend downloading some free tracks from www.purevolume.com and of course download.com. They have some pretty sweet stuff. (everyone needs to check out The Forecast) And a lot of the record labels (especially Victory, Roadrunner, and Century Media) give away free mp3s of a lot of things. So basically, you can get some really cool stuff for free and legally, you just have to look. I woul dreccomend Itunes though (especially if you have a pod) I have used it a few times, and it is pretty good. there are just cheaper ways though. Like Yahoo offers downloads for $4.99 a month, which is really cheap.
 
I use iTunes. They're pretty good in my opinion, but i cant compare them to any other site, as don't use any other site. I used to use tiscali music downloads, because they just put the price of the songs on top of the bill you get for your broadband, but since i got my ipod mini, i cant use them - their downloads are in wma format sadly.
 
xcsti
I know there is a legal pay site that you pay by file size. It's something like one cent for every meg. A friend of mine recommended it and it was also mention in a thread similar to this one. The name is just eluding me right now.
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I know but I don't wanna say because I don't want it to get shut down. :indiff:

Iuma.com is good too
 
phat_pengiun
I use iTunes. They're pretty good in my opinion, but i cant compare them to any other site, as don't use any other site. I used to use tiscali music downloads, because they just put the price of the songs on top of the bill you get for your broadband, but since i got my ipod mini, i cant use them - their downloads are in wma format sadly.
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Same here. I never download anything, but when Pepsi was giving music away at iTunes.com with their bottle caps, I tried it and liked it. I haven't bought any music from them yet, but that's the only site I'll go to. Sometimes, I listen to their samples and go out and buy the CDs.
 
smellysocks12
Many pay sites that give you the idea that they're legal, are illegal. For example there's this Russian site asking just a little fee to give you access to albums (of mostly American or European artists). The only reason why they can do that is because the Russian police is as corrupt as it gets, they probably send Mr Inpectorovski on vacation of some of your money and don't get busted.
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You mean Allofmp3, right? And no, the Russian police aren't corrupt. Allofmp3 have actually signed contracts with Russian contract holders and are legally allowed to offer music by all artists from all labels.

If I had a credit card, I'd most certainly join up and start buying from Allofmp3. Why? No copy protection on the songs and choice of coded. Allofmp3 allow you to choose which codec you want your music in, including lossless formats like FLAC.

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Edit: Oh, and you seem to be forgetting that Russia have a **** economy. An album in Russia costs something like 100 rubles ($3USD). So naturally their prices are going to be cheaper than an online store operating from America itself (iTunes).
 
Shannon
You mean Allofmp3, right? And no, the Russian police aren't corrupt. Allofmp3 have actually signed contracts with Russian contract holders and are legally allowed to offer music by all artists from all labels.

If I had a credit card, I'd most certainly join up and start buying from Allofmp3. Why? No copy protection on the songs and choice of coded. Allofmp3 allow you to choose which codec you want your music in, including lossless formats like FLAC.

👍👍

Edit: Oh, and you seem to be forgetting that Russia have a **** economy. An album in Russia costs something like 100 rubles ($3USD). So naturally their prices are going to be cheaper than an online store operating from America itself (iTunes).
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I'm just worried about the russians having access to my credit card. :scared: They dropped paypal because of the stupid RIAA. :mad:
 
Shannon
You mean Allofmp3, right? And no, the Russian police aren't corrupt. Allofmp3 have actually signed contracts with Russian contract holders and are legally allowed to offer music by all artists from all labels.

If I had a credit card, I'd most certainly join up and start buying from Allofmp3. Why? No copy protection on the songs and choice of coded. Allofmp3 allow you to choose which codec you want your music in, including lossless formats like FLAC.

👍👍

Edit: Oh, and you seem to be forgetting that Russia have a **** economy. An album in Russia costs something like 100 rubles ($3USD). So naturally their prices are going to be cheaper than an online store operating from America itself (iTunes).
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Nonsense, an album of an American artist that would be sold to retailers in the USA for $10 would cost $10 in Russia. They might not be able to afford that with their **** economy, but that doesn't mean they can sell em legally for $1 a piece.

Maybe it would be legal for a RUSSIAN to download from there, but not for anyone else. End of story. If you think otherwise you're just making up excuses to be able to say to yourself that you're doing things legally.
 
smellysocks12
Nonsense, an album of an American artist that would be sold to retailers in the USA for $10 would cost $10 in Russia. They might not be able to afford that with their **** economy, but that doesn't mean they can sell em legally for $1 a piece.

Maybe it would be legal for a RUSSIAN to download from there, but not for anyone else. End of story. If you think otherwise you're just making up excuses to be able to say to yourself that you're doing things legally.
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I don't think that's right either. I think either Taiwan or S. Korea had similar policy on the rights to old movies. After so many years, anybody can publish any older movies(in my case, it was Kurosawa flicks) without bothering with the rights, as long as it was only sold domestically. How convenient. :rolleyes: I wonder if the copyright owners had a say in that law?
 
In terms of markets differing markets offering differen't prices, I recently read in newsweek that they are starting to release dvd's in a few SE Asian nations at the same time as the theater release, at a cost of a few dollars! I can't seem to find the article online at the moment.
 

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