Posted by FatKat on 04/26/06 22:44

David wrote:
> "FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> wrote in message
> news:1146083949.324663.138760@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > How is it a good value? If you're going to go illegal, might as well
> > go into peer-share and get it for free?
>
> Where's your evidence for it being illegal?.

Ex. A: an interview with Sergei Arsentiev, director of MP3Search.ru,
on the P2Pnet website. Here's the site so you can review it yourself.

http://p2pnet.net/story/3098

At the very least, it's no better or worse (legally or morally
speaking) than peer sharing. I'm not sure whom Arsentiev means when he
refers to "traders" as a source of media that he eventually sells - but
with insiders, the sources he indicates misses a seemingly obvious
group - the people to whom the music belongs. Because their source of
media has allowed them to amass gigabytes of music, they can't verify
the quality of their music and often rely on their customers to do it
for them. And as the bottom of the artical makes clear, they have a
license to sell their music by virtue of Russian legislation, but not
from the people to whom the music belongs.

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