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devo
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| JediTimmy wrote: | is P2P downloading of music really illegal?
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Susurrus
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:17 am Post subject: |
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| JediTimmy wrote: | i said its wrong to sell it  i know thats illegal. |
I agreed with you, dunno why the face.
| JediTimmy wrote: | | is P2P downloading of music really illegal? |
My only response to this is: You're kidding, right?
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aristobrat
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| JediTimmy wrote: | | i said its wrong to sell it i know thats illegal. is P2P downloading of music really illegal? |
| Susurrus wrote: | | My only response to this is: You're kidding, right? |
In the US, it's illegal. Other countries vary. i.e. in Canada, it's legal to download, but not to upload.
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2004/music_downloading.asp
Russia currently has an interesting loophole that allows services like www.allofmp3.com to legally sell music for crazy rates like US$.02 per MB of the filesize. (You chose how you want your songs encoded ... want a full quality WAV? No problem, but you're paying for a 30MB download vs. a 4MB MP3 download. Regardless, at pennies a MB, it's still a crazy deal). Not necessarily ethical, but does appear to be legal. |
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Bytes Back
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Susurrus
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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| aristobrat wrote: | In the US, it's illegal. Other countries vary. i.e. in Canada, it's legal to download, but not to upload.
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2004/music_downloading.asp
Russia currently has an interesting loophole that allows services like www.allofmp3.com to legally sell music for crazy rates like US$.02 per MB of the filesize. (You chose how you want your songs encoded ... want a full quality WAV? No problem, but you're paying for a 30MB download vs. a 4MB MP3 download. Regardless, at pennies a MB, it's still a crazy deal). Not necessarily ethical, but does appear to be legal. |
I forget about the worldliness of our users here. My comments are merely for the U.S. as I don't pretend to know legal issues in other countries as it's hard enough just tracking those in the U.S.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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Yes P2p is illegal only if the said file is copyrighted
that being said if your looking up smaller bands whose music is not copyrighted then its open to anybody
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If you had a bunch of LP's ( Look it up younger members ) and you transfered the tracks to CD this is legal in the UK.
However, if you downloaded the self same tracks and put them on CD is this illegal ?
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Susurrus
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In the US, if you haven't paid for the songs and just download them, it's illegal. Though I think it's technically illegal to download the songs even if you have them on LP or CD somewhere. It's not that much of a nightmare.
Of course, this doesn't pertain to songs in the common domain or under other such GPL-ish licenses.
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JediTimmy
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i bought a rage album to make up for my illegal practices. it sounds heaps better than the mp3s anyway, even on my old pwrmacs inbuilt speakers.
i want to get theyre DVD but i cant play on anything till i get my macmini, hurry up apple.
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject: How many songs do ya got in iTunes??? |
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| i currently have 821 songs with 63 bought from itunes 30 bought from napster 4 bought from connect |
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LOL @ your avatar.  |
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I have about 2130 songs. 4 from the ITMS. The rest are straight off CD's. (That's what I did the first week I had the mini).
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1048 songs
About half way through my CD collection. Then I have to figure out how to get my LPs (200 +) into my iTunes.
I Love my AIRTUNES!
Cheers
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