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- bluedefender8, on 10/12/2007, -1/+59Allofmp3.com is now my favorite website ever.
- Janus67, on 10/12/2007, -1/+49wow... this could only end well...
- OpticalLiam, on 10/12/2007, -12/+60In Soviet Russia, man stick it to YOU!
- Wooism, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51QUICK!! Mark this innacurate!! We don't want AOMP3's bandwidth going to hell! Keep it on the downlow ;)
- aurrea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+48Did you not read the article? You will need to listen to the music through the "allofmp3 player". You won't be able to transfer the files to other computers, ipods etc.
The headline almost made me leave work early, stop by Frys and pick up a couple 500 giggers and spend the rest of the week downloading. But, after reading I guess I will remain at work. - detrate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36From TFA:
"The company, which previously charged about $1 an album, plans to offer consumers a __new_software_program__ that allows them to download any song from the site for free."
So all you have to do is download their software.... hmm... - flave, on 10/12/2007, -10/+41In case there were any questions about allofmp3's legality....
- DiggLurker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34Now we can get DRM with our pirated music? Brilliant!
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26Yeah, ad-supported free music is a concept that only a small, foreign, legally-tenuous company could ever offer. Oh, wait a minute, you're full of crap:
http://www.googletutor.com/2006/10/16/google-offers-free-music/
Regardless, AllofMP3 claims that their site is perfectly legal in Russia and has survived numerous audits by Russian authorities for over 6 years. Illegal in America does not mean immoral everywhere.
Keep on plussing this guy, diggers. Keep on sympathizing with crybaby millionaire rockstars who attack their primary means of free advertising. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Here, download their software and start listening to the music, online, for free.
http://files.allofmp3.com/files/musicformasses-setup.exe
more info: http://allofmp3.com/info/musicformasses.shtml - Kajico, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17wow way to stick it to the man
- alternnate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16MasterCard!
- manageMyRights, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I don't trust ANY DRM on my computer.
My computer is a dictatorship and I'm the absolute ruler. No software running on it will restrict me from doing what I want. - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12TFA clearly states that the songs will play only on one Windows PC running an ad-revenue client program. Read before you blather. Doy.
- tutivlahos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14@ohearn
I see now... Thx. I know it was a noob question, but I had never visited allofmp3.com.
@AlphaTeam
I'm not from the US. Check your map and my avatar, this is a Greek flag, *****. - luketabor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Well, here's the link to the software:
http://files.allofmp3.com/files/musicformasses-setup.exe
It's only like 2.2mb. - spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13If google made a music service, it would be very very similar to this.
- Noctem, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19All this does is hurt the artists whose music they are giving away for free. That's a shame.
That being said, time to set that as my homepage :) - ohearn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Because it isn't illegal to buy from them. We are paying for the music. It is AllOfMP3's responsibilities to pay their share to the appropriate parties. If other companies would take the hint and give us non-DRMed music at a decent cost the argument would be over.
- h00ligan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11actually, the record labels pay huge fees to the radio stations ;) *cough* payola *cough*
- Systembomber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10then the bandwidth will be raped =D
- greyfade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9i just refilled my account with my mastercard. using a credit card will redirect you to another site where you can use the same login info. they accept visa and mastercard.
sneaky bastards, they are. :D - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Thats like asking if you trust a man who rapes male children more than one whom rapes female children, does it matter? It's DRM, there is no such thing as trustworthy DRM.
- OverThere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7SHHHHHHH. Don't you know the first rule of the newsgroups?? (same as the first rule in fight club)
- shuffle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11This is ***** great. I can hardly contain my excitement when I think of how hot headed the RIAA are getting as they hear about this!
- Jules, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7At least you get to choose:
DRM Free or Free DRM - b0neman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9The article says they will distribute the songs free but you have to play them with a proprietary player. non-DRM'd stuff will be for pay. I wonder if it will still be pennies on the Gigabyte?
If they don't take Paypal and Visa has been strong armed against paying out to them, how are they going to make any money? Certainly not from the millions and millions of rich Russians?!? - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@Dadioflex
You're right. I stand corrected. Dugg.
However, ITMS was coerced to remove the message "iTunes is fair to artists" because of the tiny per-sale percentage offered to indie artists. - Alphateam, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Your loss.
Tetris was a big loser too. Damn Russians. - h00ligan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6yes it did - it's been raised again.
- dadioflex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Weird Al made a bad deal with his record company - not iTunes fault. The Record Companies get a better return from downloaded music than from CDs. How the Record Companies distribute that money is up to them and their heinous contracts.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Just so you guys know, the tracks (under free mode) are 128kbps MP3's. Not bad for free, though I do like 192 or higher.
- mrlost117, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9time to get down on those $100 400GB seagate drives
- manageMyRights, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I can't imagine what your talking about. Using bittorrent you can get 320kpbs (or at least 192kbps) of pretty much any song u want. And in almost every case it will max out your connection speed while downloading too.
If you want to be against song downloading fine but don't pretend its not fast or high quality. - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Adware is not spyware by default. AllofMP3 is the only MP3 store I've ever trusted my money with and they deserved every penny. And it wasn't even that many pennies considering I got 3 albums plus a few songs plucked from other albums for only $5.
- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8This is hilarious. They're running their PR like a bread-and-circus campaign to capture the heart of "the masses."
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Why would a store tell people how to steal their own merchandise?
- jcapogna, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10But the radio stations pay huge fees to the record labels.
- spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6My opinion so far:
Downsides: DRM'd, not compatible with allTunes yet, 128kb/sec.
Upsides: Freakin' free music, I won't complain about any of the downsides. - jlawson1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4this will draw more people to site, they will listen to the 'free' music then decide that they want it on their iPod and decide that 10 cents per song isn't that bad a deal, and buy it. pretty good idea in my opinion. i hate it that visa has decided that they dont want anything to do with it...hello mastercard.
- jsls, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Screw VISA, just use XROST Prepaid iCards....and pay for it with VISA....LOL
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"It's DRM, there is no such thing as trustworthy DRM."
Maybe if you're paranoid. DRM can be something as simple as not letting you skip a company logo at the beginning of a DVD. DRM is only a hot issue right now because of a couple of recordo-fascist extremists and their weapons of mass disruption. - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"In case there were any questions about allofmp3's legality...."
The ad revenue (you read the article, right?) will likely go to their ROMS license, so nothing may have changed here. Sure, that license may not be enough, but that's what's currently is debated as for the regular purchasable music too. Anyway, because that license is so low, they should be able to finance it this way. I think there's nothing new under the sun here, just another way for them to finance their business. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This BoingBoing post has more details about the change:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/18/allofmp3_loses_visa_.html
From the sounds of things, it might not be all that great (aka spyware). - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Diners Club?
- johnhummel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was wondering how I was going to get the White Album again.
- spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's not streaming music. You download the song, it uses the player to check back to home base. that simple. Break the DRM and free music.
- luketabor, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Too bad this "free" music is DRMed and linked to one computer at a time. Still nice, but definitely not free. Hopefully, though, their DRM will be broken soon enough. They're already illegal, and this is just an attempt by them to be a bit more legit.
I do love their for-pay downloading though. It's just so much more convenient and much higher quality than P2P downloading. - luketabor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Alright, a couple quick observations after installing:
Justin Timberlake's new album sucks.
The Music for Masses player will not play normal mp3 files, even after renaming to .mp3x
The .mp3x files will not play in a normal mp3 player after renaming to .mp3
DBpowerAMP will not convert these files even after renaming to .mp3
So there's some pretty rudimentary DRM going on here. It's obvious that the mp3x format is just a broken form of mp3, and their player is just an appropriately broken decoder that starts working after connecting to their site.
So here's what needs to be found out:
What part of the file is broken, and can it be fixed?
Does AllofMP3 fingerprint their files? (Easy to tell, 2 people download same song and compare hashes) - luketabor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh, and trying to use a mp3 repair tool doesn't do it either. However, "fixing" the file renamed to mp3, then renaming back to mp3x renders the file unplayable by the Music For Masses player as well. So at least some of the DRM is before or after the actual frames of the mp3 file.
Getting rid of everything before frame 0 causes the player to crash, and getting rid of everything after the last frame causes the player to give a "corrupted song" error. -
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