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Posted by NRen2k5 on 01/11/07 08:22
m-theory@superstrings.com wrote:
> Why don't you "put up or shut up" as they say? Please provide proof of
> your claim that AllofMP3 is run by "Russian criminals."
They are violating copyrights by not paying royalties for the music they
are selling.
> I'd like to see
> what you base your slanderous opinion on. The facts are:
>
> 1. AllofMP3.com has been around for 6 years and has a loyal customer
> base that is enormous by independent reports.
Which has nothing to do with their violation of copyrights.
> 2. There are no reports whatsoever of identity theft or other problems
> associated with the customer base. In fact, customers are very happy
> with AllofMP3.
Which has nothing to do with their violation of copyrights.
> 3. The one caveat is that, according to Wikipedia, many customers began
> getting porn spam some months back, on email addresses that AllofMP3 had
> for a very long time without incident. No one knows if this was a breach
> on behalf of AOMP3 or not.
Which has little to do with their violation of copyrights.
> 4. AllofMP3 knows customers were concerned about the legality of a site
> that offered music at such reasonable prices, and therefore included
> information about their legal standing, as per their position on Russian
> Law. Not being a legal expert I can only say that I appreciate that they
> assured me, as a customer, that it was a legal operation. If there is
> some question about the law, it is for the courts to straighten out, not
> customers. All ofMP3 did not have to include this information on their
> site, but they did. That creates a certain amount of trust, imo. If it
> is ill-founded or not, the courts will decide and take appropriate
> action.
>
> There is no proof, that I have seen, that this site is run by
> "criminals."
Then you are a bleeding idiot.
> And I see you avoided the real issue: that the RIAA could be making this
> money themselves by starting a US-based site like AllofMP3 that sells
> music files at the same price structure of AllofMP3. The problem with
> the RIAA, is that it too greedy to see that cheaper music equals far
> more sales, making volume the thing that will make them and the artists
> more money. Instead they want to close down an affordable outlet, and
> force a situation where people are forced to pay a buck a song (or
> whatever outklets charge here). It won't work, b/c if AllofMP3 closes
> down, and music is too expensive, people will just augment lower sales
> at legit outlets with P2P type resources that don't pay ANY royalties to
> ANYbody. The RIAA can't win by trying to force this type of situation.
> It has to play along, or lose. If it doesn't want to play along by
> letting AllofMP3 make the money, then the RIAA needs to start their own
> US-based service to make the money themselves by using an AllofMP3
> pricing structure. I would certainly choose to buy from a US-based site
> rather than an international site, if one were available that was as
> customer-oriented, convenient and well structured as AllofMP3.
What you think and what you want don't change the facts.
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