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post #1 of 9
4/27/06 at 6:23pm
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Hi, I wish to download music for my iPod, I have been using itunes lately and its starting to chew up my pennies (79p a track). and it dont let windows media center play the tracks so I want to change (so it can play on ipod, windows etc)

I want cheaper music
It has to be 100% LEGAL
No P2P sharing


I found one for 0.09p a track! www.legalsounds.com

Its a russian based site (in english) I live in the UK is it legal fo rme to download from there?



thanks!
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post #2 of 9
4/27/06 at 8:43pm
i use www.allofmp3.com for quite a while now... rather than $/per song its 2 cents per MB downloaded, so it depends how much you pay per song based on lenght and file quality you pick (i usually do 192kbps vbr ogg). i'll admit legality is borderline there, but best case scenario.... you'll be fine. dont worry about it.
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post #3 of 9
4/27/06 at 11:06pm
i think that the copyright infringment industry is going to screw themselves over eventually. i dont listen to nor do i buy music anymore.........streaming free crap is good enough for me.

this all sounds very much like when the movie industry freaked out over vhs. they can attempt to stagnate progress in order to secure profits, but in the end people with fresh ideas and no money climb on top by making the consumer happy.

thanks for the rant......most of the time i just listen to pandora.com or online radio.......ads are ok, i just turn the volume down. and then there are always ear plugs for when they smooze congress to outlaw volume control.
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post #4 of 9
4/27/06 at 11:37pm
I don't use it, but I know someone that does, Napster seems to be fairly good now, and legal.
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post #5 of 9
4/28/06 at 1:02pm
yea but once u quit their service, the songs become obsolete
unless u have software to like convrt their wma to mp3. which i think it's totally not illegal because u pay for it anyway
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post #6 of 9
4/29/06 at 7:52pm
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Originally Posted by KMarch
Hi, I wish to download music for my iPod, I have been using itunes lately and its starting to chew up my pennies (79p a track). and it dont let windows media center play the tracks so I want to change (so it can play on ipod, windows etc)

I want cheaper music
It has to be 100% LEGAL
No P2P sharing


I found one for 0.09p a track! www.legalsounds.com

Its a russian based site (in english) I live in the UK is it legal fo rme to download from there?

thanks!
The Ruskies are ignoring the copyright protection, that's why it's so cheap.
I'd worry more about giving financial data to someone in Russia more than I'd worry about whether or not downloading the music is legal. Hopefully you paid with paypal or something like that instead of a credit card. If you did give someone in Russia your credit card number, I'd cancel it REAL quick....
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post #7 of 9
4/29/06 at 8:22pm
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*phew*

I didnt go with the russians looked too good to be true, I tried eMusic from www.musicunited.org but they do poo tracks so I gone back to itunes
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post #8 of 9
4/29/06 at 10:44pm
That's good. I'd hate to see a person lose their hard earned cash to some low life scum. Gotta be careful on this here internet thing..
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post #9 of 9
5/20/06 at 1:36am
KMarch, I am not tooting your horn here but I applaud your effort to stay legal.

WMP 11 has MTV’s URGE music service built in. That may be a start. Not sure about the usage limits and DRM but maybe you could load them to your iPod.

On a side note, allofmp3.com’s servers have been seized by the Russian govt. This happened earlier this week and was on the online news boards. http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/13425

I still prefer to buy the CD, rip it to lossless and use it how I see fit. The downside is that 8 of 10 songs on the CD are trash. This DRM stuff is even trashier though and buying a CD is still the only way around it. But what am I talking about; I’ve only bought around 10 new CD’s in the past four years because everything sucks. That’s a rant for another time though.

Summary: try MTV’s Urge.
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