Posted by FatKat on 07/11/06 14:44

G8ASO <(.¿.)> © T wrote:
> My reply to some American, is reposted below in case you missed it:-
>
> Judging by the use of the word "Shucks" which does not appear in an English
> dictionary, I would assume you are an American.

And judging by your snippy opening aimed at nationality and it's
needless doubling, I can conclude you're just a troll.
>
> In the mother country, our government has made a law whereby we are not
> responsible for any fraudulent transaction made on our credit cards, so,
> even if your extreme suggestions are remotely true, who cares? We get the
> music and a refund in the remote case of any fraud.

Note to self, it's okay to commit credit card in G8ASO's motherland,
assuming there's any credit left to steal.
>
> I have been with Allofmp3 for a long time, and have a good relationship with
> them, sourcing music for them.

What does "sourcing" me mean? Do you actually provide the music? What
is your source?
>
> They have never been anything but the most professional organisation I have
> ever dealt with, their website is one of the most well constructed on the
> web, and their software is excellent and well thought out.

And they make you pay for stuff you could get for free using P2P which
is about as legal

> I also edit their on-line catalogue to remove spelling mistakes and correct some of the
> listings.

So it's open source, or you work for them?
>
> They no longer accept credit card payments, and haven't for months.

Judging by the loose standards for credit in your Fatherland, oops,
Mother Country - I'm not surprised.
>
> The Xrost service redirects you to a new URL which works, but they only
> accept Papal for a new PIN code, so another tier of protection there.
> All together, complete protection against fraud, and not a single complaint
> against them by any customer.

Hard to get complaints from people who are already accustomed to paying
for something that many others get for free.
>
> I suggest you direct your anger at the profiteering companies such as ITunes
> etc., who overcharge for music, offer it in a silly format with reduced
> quality, and make it more expensive than actually buying the original work
> from Amazon!

You mean those people who actually have a license to sell/distribute
that music? BTW, what's wrong with the format for iTunes? Of course
there are many arguments about Apple's format - I would suggest you
direct your diatribe to an MP3.hardware NG.

> The same goes for all the other Western sellers of music on-line, they all
> vastly overcharge for the service and sell a substandard product for more
> than the cost of the original CD recording.

Unlike AOMP3.com who simply charge what others could get for free under
a pretense of legality which is probably no better than that for people
who simply use P2P.
>
> The company has been investigated by the authorities and the website was
> suspended for about 2 weeks whilst this was carried out, it was found to be
> 100% legal, as was their other site based in Czechoslovakia.

Where was it investigated? My understanding, and please correct me if
I'm wrong, is that the site was investigated in Russia and other parts
of Eastern Europe where copyright enforcement is already weak - so
those people who were using AOMP3 might as well have used WinMX or
eMule.
>
> It may well NOT be legal if it was based in the USA, but many things are
> different in other counties - for example, in the UK no citizen can buy a
> firearm for personal use, so we don't have our school children executing
> their classmates!.

Ofcourse Dunblane isn't Scotland - though if it were, the shooting that
claimed lives there wouldn't have counted because it wasn't committed
by schoolmates.
>
> I am not connected with the company other than receiving credit for my
> sourcing of rare CDs for their collection.

....and by shilling for them.
>
> Can you find another legal website where you can download the original work
> in lossless form (Monkey's Audio .ape file) to reconstruct a CD locally with
> exactly the same quality as the original CD? I can't.

As noted above and admitted by you, your definition of legal is quite
amorphous. How much more legal is AOMP3.com than regular (and free)
P2P?
>
> All of MP3 is unique, unless Russia and Czechoslovakia change their laws -
> completely legal, and safe and secure to deal with. It that were not enough
> to recommend it, it looks as if it has a significantly larger and more
> complete catalogue than anyone else at about 10% of the price for a superior
> product.

Let's all move to Russia and Czechoslovakia...whoops...I mean the Czech
Republic & Slovakia.

We have schools here in the US.
>
> I rest my case!

Resting is pretty much evident in your case.

NP Quarashi - Stick em Up!!

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