Recording Industry goes after Allofmp3...n thots on 'legitimacy' and 'justice
Like in the days of yore when Napster clogged the digital lanes of cyberdom, the recording industry is yet again rounding up a posse to go after an allegedly copyright-infringing company - allofmp3.com - for selling albums and tracks at 'rock-bottom prices'.
Moscow-based 'Mediaservices', which runs 'allofmp3.com' and 'alltunes', is being sued by a group of US-based record companies.
according to papers filed as part of the US legal action,
"The defendant's entire business... amounts to nothing more than a massive infringement of plaintiffs' exclusive rights under the Copyright Act and New York law,"
Said the recalcitrant Russian licensing body - ROMS - in response,
"Allofmp3.com's activity is quite legitimate," said Roms general director Oleg Nezus.
"The opinion of foreign copyright owners is just that - their opinion," he told BBC Russian.com.
Well,
...till this issue is resolved, I have decided to remove the once displayed button at the top to 'mp3sugar.com' - another allofmp3-like site. Not in the interests of Justice of course, but in the interests of what's Legitimate - for it is the fallibility of human wisdom that serves as the chasm between what's 'Legitimate' and 'Justice'.
I often felt a tad bit uncomfortable that a so-called 'artist' can croon a tune one time and shake legs a lifetime. I mean, we don't pay a royalty to the bloke who tarred the road everytime we go over it do we - though that supplies has far more benefits to our physical and, in turn, psychological constitution than any of those tunes occupying a 'top 40s' billboard here or over yonder. And besides this, I cannot help but wonder at the prices charged by 'legitimate' sites - such as Itunes - which proffers relatively lower quality mp3s, without CD covers, artwork, lyrics, etc, whilst saving on transport, shop-space, air-conditioning, carpeting, etc, for just about the same price as store-bought 'wave' quality CDs.
I know it's 'Legitimate', but, pray tell, where's the 'Justice' in that?
Hmmm.....
Moscow-based 'Mediaservices', which runs 'allofmp3.com' and 'alltunes', is being sued by a group of US-based record companies.
according to papers filed as part of the US legal action,
"The defendant's entire business... amounts to nothing more than a massive infringement of plaintiffs' exclusive rights under the Copyright Act and New York law,"
Said the recalcitrant Russian licensing body - ROMS - in response,
"Allofmp3.com's activity is quite legitimate," said Roms general director Oleg Nezus.
"The opinion of foreign copyright owners is just that - their opinion," he told BBC Russian.com.
Well,
...till this issue is resolved, I have decided to remove the once displayed button at the top to 'mp3sugar.com' - another allofmp3-like site. Not in the interests of Justice of course, but in the interests of what's Legitimate - for it is the fallibility of human wisdom that serves as the chasm between what's 'Legitimate' and 'Justice'.
I often felt a tad bit uncomfortable that a so-called 'artist' can croon a tune one time and shake legs a lifetime. I mean, we don't pay a royalty to the bloke who tarred the road everytime we go over it do we - though that supplies has far more benefits to our physical and, in turn, psychological constitution than any of those tunes occupying a 'top 40s' billboard here or over yonder. And besides this, I cannot help but wonder at the prices charged by 'legitimate' sites - such as Itunes - which proffers relatively lower quality mp3s, without CD covers, artwork, lyrics, etc, whilst saving on transport, shop-space, air-conditioning, carpeting, etc, for just about the same price as store-bought 'wave' quality CDs.
I know it's 'Legitimate', but, pray tell, where's the 'Justice' in that?
Hmmm.....
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