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Originally Posted by eddie00001
Slightly off topic, but this to me is immoral buy companies artificially inflating prices in some markets as opposed to others, forcing the consumer to pay the increased price where they can get away with it. Its funny how companies are only for a free market so long as it suits their profit margins.
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As the old saying goes....two wrongs don't make a right. There's no doubt that the music industry has, in the past, been a victim of its own greed and I would agree that, until recently, with regards to downloading music they have well and truly had their head up their own behinds.
But things are getting better - legitimate download services are available and getting better all the time. Of course there are elements of the business that want to revert back to the old days of trying to fleece their customers by doubling or trebling the cost of online downloads - and these people should be reminded how the enormous dent in profits they suffered from consumers who didn't like paying OTT prices for CDs and went online and got them for free instead - but that's another subject completely!
Where I particularly dislike allofMP3 is that they are using an outdated copyright law in Russia to avoid paying much to the record labels (and in turn to the artists) and nothing at all to the publishers (and in turn the composers).
And for those who don't have much sympathy for the labels, I would urge them to think about the artists and writers instead. If you're a new artist, have a middling hit record with a song that someone else wrote - your royalty payment (aside from taking upwards of six months to come through) will not cover a week's food shopping at Lidl's.
Composers who write the song (also have to wait upwards of six months) get a couple of PENCE for having their songs played on nation radio in the UK for example. They need quantity to live and allofMP3 are denying them what should be a sizeable payment per download and banking the money themselves - making no effort whatsoever to pay these people.
Whilst the labels and big publishing houses might be able to survive without such payments, there's a lot of talented people who simply cannot.
Personally, I think that taking a payment and not paying the dues is worse that the people who "share" their collections online for free.