let me pay a cd what’s worth (5-6 Euro / 7-8$ ) u’ll see no one will search alternative pirate methods to download music.

one hit parade can sell about 2/3.000.000 original cd, and can be grabbed illegally for other 12.000.000 copies.
if they’r smart enough they can just use the calculator to understand that musics and movies cost too much on the retail store:

Now: CD 24.99$
@singer: 3.000.000 * 1.7$ (each copy) = 5.100.000 $
@singer: 12.000.000 * 0$ (downloaded) = 0 $

@studios: 3.000.000 * 20$ (each copy) = 60.000.000 $
@studios: 12.000.000 * 0$ (downloaded) = 0 $

Hope for the future: Digital Album for 4.4$
@singer: 15.000.000 * 0.4$ (each copy) = 6.000.000 $
@studios: 15.000.000 * 4$ (each copy) = 60.000.000 $

and for sure we’ll buy that album if sold for 5-8$, so they can have a lot of profit, but they won’t.
bcose they wants to gain more money, they won’t stop, for them it’s not enough.
they wants gain 60.000.000$ (like now) from the selling of the retail store, plus then other 100.000.000$ from digital copyrighted copy, that’s the truth.
they wants more, always more.

I have been ripped off to the tune of 10’s of thousands over the past 10 years that I have been buying CDs. New releases in Ireland cost 20euro!!!

Allofmp3 was a breath of fresh air. I was finaly getting music at a affordable price. Frankly I could’t give a sh!te about the arguments about ‘artists rights’ – the record companies were shafting them long before allofmp3 came along.

DRM is a joke – plain & simple.

Concerning GoMusic.ru – it’s just a mirror of mp3search.ru… One of the oldest russian mp3 sites.

MP3SALE.ru – is my favourite now.. Absolutely safe CC transactions (thru independent proccessing), great music collection, and now there’s a 100% christmas bonus to $50 payment til January, 15th.

As for greed and theft, google this:- “RIAA Petitions For Lower Songwriter Royalties” for reprehensible behavoiur.

IMHO, the RIAA are doing a splendid job of harrassing individuals and alienating America with millions worldwide (see “RIAA conducting “reign of terror,” lawyer says”). if I were American, I’d be a bit more concerned about those issues, than if tracks should sell at 69 cents because they can’t sell at 79.

If you *are* American and concerned, there is a “Take a Stand Against the Madness” petition that currently has 97,000 signatures and needs 100,000 to petition Congress.

Finally, AOM is a great site. It works well and I’d still use it even if they doubled their prices. Artists should get rewarded for their work, but not in perpetuity and not to gratuitous excess. AOM is too cheap, I-Tunes too expensive – there is a solution in there…

When/if this gets shut down there will be more people looking for other free sources, I cant imagine going from a buck an album to being okay with paying 99 cents per track.

Kazaa/AllofMP3 provide near-perfect, complete copies of things otherwise available for purchase. YouTube provides imperfect, incomplete streams of things that were free in the first place and not otherwise available for sale.

YouTube has DMCA and possibly even fair use on its side. Not so with Kazaa/AllofMP3.