allofmp3
posted April 29, 2004 #
I've not seen a whole lot of press about this, so I will mention it and see if people think it's for real, a scam, or just lame.
Have you heard of All of MP3? It's a music download site apparently based out of Moscow. The site offers "online encoding", so you could download your music in loads of formats (mp3, flac, ogg, etc.). But the clincher is that you pay for bandwidth usage, not for song licensing. You want 500 Meg worth of downloads? $5. A gig? $10. Artists that offer nothing on iTunes or any US service have music available here, there are ridiculously complete discographies (check out Radiohead, or Bjork), and somehow this all happens through some sort of blanket Russian copyright law that keeps it legal. You can read a bit more about the service here, or just visit their site.
It seems a bit sketchy to me, and I'm not really down with the web based interface for procuring music.. but never-the-less.. it's an interesting phenomenon.
Have you heard of All of MP3? It's a music download site apparently based out of Moscow. The site offers "online encoding", so you could download your music in loads of formats (mp3, flac, ogg, etc.). But the clincher is that you pay for bandwidth usage, not for song licensing. You want 500 Meg worth of downloads? $5. A gig? $10. Artists that offer nothing on iTunes or any US service have music available here, there are ridiculously complete discographies (check out Radiohead, or Bjork), and somehow this all happens through some sort of blanket Russian copyright law that keeps it legal. You can read a bit more about the service here, or just visit their site.
It seems a bit sketchy to me, and I'm not really down with the web based interface for procuring music.. but never-the-less.. it's an interesting phenomenon.