Thoughts? Safe to use credit card?

Thanksssssss

4/27/2006 1:51:19 PM

[Edited on April 27, 2006 at 2:00 PM. Reason : ]

4/27/2006 1:59:29 PM

Don't pay for illegal mp3s.

4/27/2006 2:28:44 PM

I use it all the time, its just fine, i've downloaded well over 2GB of music from them

4/27/2006 2:29:11 PM

^^ not illegal and the russians have plenty more to worry about than protecting american copyright law

4/27/2006 2:32:36 PM

Actually, in the US it is not illegal. Actually, there is a little known loophole in US law that allows you to import music from outside the US without any copyright violation.

17 USC 602(a)(2) says that "importation, for the private use of the importer and not for distribution, by any person with respect to no more than one copy or phonorecord of any one work at any one time" is NOT infringement.

Thus, if you "import" one song from say, allofmp3.com, or from some other foreign server, for personal use, and do not distribute it to anyone else, the RIAA could not legally come after you.

4/27/2006 2:48:17 PM

As I've said before, from a legal standpoint you should be ok. From a moral standpoint, you might as well be downloading them from the usual underground places.

4/27/2006 2:49:14 PM

morality

4/27/2006 2:53:11 PM

i use it a lot, its pretty safe to use a credit card (although i would recommend using a credit card for an account you check often just to be sure)

and even though you have to pay its insanely cheap and you can chose your format and bitrate

4/27/2006 3:13:28 PM

It isn't cheap for FLAC

fuck mp3s

4/27/2006 3:43:28 PM

how many download places even have FLAC

4/27/2006 3:44:26 PM

if you want FLAC, you might as well buy the CD and rip it yourself

4/27/2006 3:52:01 PM

I use it.

Seems safe to me, good prices, legal, awesome selection, etc.

If you use it make sure you get the Alltunes program, makes it 100x easier to get your music.

4/27/2006 4:10:30 PM

not many and paying for a song by the size of it blows

Quote :

"if you want FLAC, you might as well buy the CD and rip it yourself "

Thats the thing, music today sucks in regards to full CDs, but buying the single song in FLAC is prohibitive from a cost perspective.

[Edited on April 27, 2006 at 4:20 PM. Reason : x]

4/27/2006 4:15:38 PM

meh, I'm lucky enough not to have super highly sensitive ears, so paying a buck and change for an album of 192kbps mp3's is just fine with me.

But, nark, don't use a credit card man, i don't trust the russkies enough for that. paypal it.

4/27/2006 4:19:35 PM

A lot of it boils down to how it was produced. A shitty production sounds bad even on the CD. But high quality stuff even I can pick out the difference between a 192 and CD in my car with pretty basic audio equipment. In my home, also with basic stuff it is even easier to distinguish the difference.

4/27/2006 4:22:53 PM

Paypal it is. thanks all.

4/27/2006 4:31:55 PM

i was going through to pay for this and at the Verified by Visa thing it shows up as 273.62 as the amount...for a $10 purchase

Quote :

"1 U.S. dollar = 27.3965097 Russian rubles"

durr...THANKS GOOGLE!

[Edited on April 27, 2006 at 4:40 PM. Reason : /]

4/27/2006 4:39:24 PM

i approve

4/27/2006 8:51:15 PM

Yea definitely use paypal JIC

4/27/2006 8:55:23 PM

Unless I'm missing something, I don't see paypal as an option

4/27/2006 9:22:26 PM

ah, shit, you're right. I guess they dropped that option. I threw $50 at it like 6 months ago, and haven't had to refill it yet.

4/27/2006 9:32:43 PM

My credit card lets me generate temporary numbers for internet use. That would be the way to go. From their end they can't trace it back to your account.

5/3/2006 4:46:53 PM

they dont even handle the credit cards, they use a 3rd party called chronopay or something

5/3/2006 4:47:48 PM

ChronoPay also supports Verified By Visa, extra security

5/3/2006 9:28:19 PM

i love allofmp3.com, but there are some bands that i love that aren't on there...it's MUCH better than itunes though

5/3/2006 9:34:58 PM

sites been down all day

5/15/2006 6:18:10 PM

yeah i'm not happy with this. i want my $1.50 cds back pronto.

5/15/2006 6:52:59 PM

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[Edited on May 15, 2006 at 7:48 PM. Reason : goddamn, no russian character support ]

5/15/2006 7:47:53 PM

In soviet russia mp3s buy you

5/15/2006 7:50:29 PM

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/15/technology/business2_browser0515/index.htm


From Site:

SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Michael Arrington at TechCrunch notes this morning that popular "quasi-legal" MP3 download service AllofMP3.com went down over the weekend, and has not yet come back up. The company operates under the dubious aegis of outfits like the "Russian Multimedia and Internet Society" which, reports MP3.com, grant it the right "to sell any song in any format without having to obtain the permission of copyright holders." Operating in a legal gray area, the site has sold music for as little as 11 cents a song, prices which have driven enormous traffic. In the U.K. it is second only to iTunes.

Arrington suspects that the abrupt shutdown may be the work of the Kremlin, responding in its own no-nonsense way to increased Western pressure to reign in Russian intellectual property theft. Apparently no fan of iTunes, Arrington regrets the shutdown, arguing that the service is "disruptive to a broken business model." At least one of his readers, however, questions his logic: "I'm all for disrupting the RIAA's and MPAA' rather antiquated business model but I fail to see how "buying" music through a channel where none of the money goes to the artists themselves will do so."

5/15/2006 11:03:51 PM

if it's shut down do we get refunds?

5/15/2006 11:08:24 PM

and i just added $10 more...

5/16/2006 12:08:03 AM

i'm glad i only had a few bucks left, but god damn this sucks. i had so much shit i wanted to get

5/16/2006 1:19:41 AM

it's back up

and looks spiffier

gg russia for giving the riaa the finger, yet again!

5/16/2006 8:14:34 AM

hmm, still says ordering unavailable for me

5/16/2006 9:10:20 AM

^ me too...it was like that all weekend

5/16/2006 12:50:04 PM

if you're using their explorer program, the website itself is pushing a 3rd party "alltunes" program now

kinda shitty if they shut the old one off and aren't saying anything about switching

5/16/2006 1:00:30 PM

the alltunes thing sucks. I accidently downloaded it first instead of the Explorer.

5/16/2006 2:32:27 PM

bttt. explorer working again, but they doubled the prices

5/21/2006 1:39:15 PM

so what it costs like a DOLLAR for a cd now?

5/21/2006 2:13:12 PM

more like 2-3 dollars for an album

5/21/2006 3:08:24 PM

damn when i went to this site in new years of 2004, it was about 55 cents for an album

5/21/2006 3:15:15 PM

when did they double the prices? I bought a cd on saturday for ~$1.15

i took this screenshot this morning



looks like the same prices for me......

[Edited on May 22, 2006 at 8:04 AM. Reason : .............?]

5/22/2006 7:57:51 AM

eh you might be right. i ordered a double cd album for something like $4.30 and that seemed high. reading up, it looks like they went .02/mb january 15.

5/22/2006 8:15:36 AM

what did the used to charge pre jan 05?

5/22/2006 9:02:32 AM

$.01/mb

5/22/2006 9:33:46 AM

i can't get my balance to update...something about authentication with verified by visa error...this is crap

5/22/2006 1:22:43 PM

if you're doing $10 for your account, bump it up to $15...

it's something about the minimum amount of the currency they use.

5/22/2006 2:20:22 PM

if you're going to pay for illegal music, why not just steal it?

5/22/2006 2:22:17 PM