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Exelent newsExelent newsPosted Jun 15, 2006 12:24 UTC (Thu) by ekj (guest, #1524)In reply to: Exelent news by dion Parent article: iTunes runs into trouble in Norway The music industry is a cartel anyway. And they're dealing monopoly-goods. In practice, the consumer doesn't have much choise as to which download-service he wants to use. For certain things (i.e. those that are iTMS exclusive) he has no choice at all. Besides, which legal download-service *should* I choose if I want to download music and play it on, for example, the Slimp3 ? As far as I'm aware there are none, and the labels would infact not allow a online-music-shop that sells unencumbered files to peddle "their" artists. Yeah, I know about the Russian thing, but the RIAA claim that's illegal too.
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Exelent news Posted Jun 15, 2006 13:46 UTC (Thu) by knobunc (subscriber, #4678) [Link] What about Musicmatch?
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Exelent news Posted Jun 15, 2006 17:55 UTC (Thu) by Frej (subscriber, #4165) [Link] About the Russian site..The Danish ministry of culture(?) actually said it wasn't illegal for the consumer to buy stuff there since the site to the consumer looks legit (or something like that). (To be honest i don't the the prices look legit). Who knows :/
The ministry actually removed a link to a group called APG (Anti piracy group) which is basically a
Exelent news Posted Jun 18, 2006 16:49 UTC (Sun) by cstanhop (subscriber, #4740) [Link] Also emusic.com provides for unencumbered mp3s.
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