Itunes/Digital download etc etc If you want to hear a paticular song do you just go to Soulseek etc and download it for free or do you use Itunes etc and pay 79p for the track? Dont worry this isnt a witch hunt
The samples on Juno are a little too short IMO, they should try do what 4djsonly do, offer the full track for the buyer to listen to, but in a 32kps stream. Personally I don't download music that much no more - I just get set rips off Slsk but mainly just movies & tv programs off torrents.
I use HMV unlimited - £14.99 all you can download. If I'm using the stuff to play out I can play it through the software already on my laptop - comes in handy.
Jonny why dont you FUCK OFF if downloading tracks off there that I already own on Vinyl is a crime then I am going to death row. And yes if I am not sure about a track from Juno etc after listening to a 45 seconds clip , i will download the full track , listen to it and then decide. other than that.............nope
Are people honestly saying they go get it off soulseek, have a listen, go "hhmm... i like it" then go pay 79p and download it a second time? don't be daft
which is fair enough - i also agree with the statement about downloading a digital version if you already own the CD /vinyl... thats not illegal
I've heard two conflicting views on this - one at uni and one on the net. The view we were given at the uni (which was a guest lecture from a law firm) was that you were allowed to copy and transfer it from CD/Vinyl to MP3 provided you have the original, under a concept known as "fair use" or something like that. That seemed more sensible to me. The other view (on the MCPS homepage) states the copyright blurb attached to most CDS/LP's: "Unauthorised Public Performance, Broadcasting, Copying, and Transfer onto Electronic Storage is prohibited". That to me sounds a bit shit - with software you're allowed to create a copy of the original CD (even though you're only allowed to use one copy at any one time - not both). I don't know about anyone else but if I own an original, I'm not gonna lose any sleep about transferring to a different format. I can't play the two versions at once anyway and I'm not gonna fork out for the privelege of owning two versions of the same track, especially when the artist doesn't get the lions share of the royalties anyway. Maybe one of the law bods on this board knows the crack.
