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Mandriva Linux to Offer Online Music Service
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CowboyNeal
on Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:47 AM
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dysfirkin writes "Mandriva 2006 is to be the first Linux distro to offer built in online music service. The service will compete with the likes of emusic.com for the music business of Linux users. I have not used Mindawn before, but the service is offered in Ogg Vorbis and FLAC."
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Incredibly annoying popup thingy alert! (Score:4, Informative)
and annoying auto playing video with sound!
Doesn't mention how much this will cost. I'm guessing from the text of the article that this is a pay-per-song service rather than a subscription model, but it doesn't explicitly say.
Interesting that it will support Linux, Windows and OS X - is this the only music service that can claim this kind of compatibility?
Re:Incredibly annoying popup thingy alert! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Incredibly annoying popup thingy alert! (Score:3, Interesting)
allofmp3 question (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Incredibly annoying popup thingy alert! (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm sorry, but that statement is not true.
There are several loopholes that exist making it legal. It may be against the spirit of the law but the letter permits it (at least in the US). The RIAA has even grudgingly admitted it (indirectally).
-nB
Re:Incredibly annoying popup thingy alert! (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Incredibly annoying popup thingy alert! (Score:3, Interesting)
BETTER news link HERE: (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:Incredibly annoying popup thingy alert! (Score:3, Informative)
Nope. Bleep.com [bleep.com] provides DRM free MP3s of loads of interesting artists from The Arctic Monkeys [bleep.com] and Maximo Park [bleep.com] to Billy Bragg [bleep.com] and Boards of Canada [bleep.com]. From their FAQ:
eMusic is still on of my favorites.. (Score:3, Interesting)
DRM (Score:5, Interesting)
Shame.
Re:DRM (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:DRM (Score:5, Funny)
Thank god.
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oh great... (Score:2)
Maybe... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Maybe... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Selection, selection, selection... (Score:2)
I already buy CDs from my local bands (that nobody else has heard of). I just don't understand how this marketing works. In fact, I think it wont.
Crappy interface too.
Competition to iTunes/Napster? (Score:2, Interesting)
iTunes killer? Of course not. (Score:3, Interesting)
Linspire did this over a year ago (Score:3, Informative)
It's also non-DRM music from independent artists.
But... but... but... (Score:3, Funny)
A (maybe) non-DRM music system;
A non-Apple music system;
A non-MS music system;
A music system that supports Ogg and FLAC.
Nothing left to talk about. *sniff* Cue crickets.
Re:If Microsoft did this... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:No MP3? (Score:3, Informative)
Once you get up to around 256kbps there's no huge difference between any of them -- the reason OGG/WMA/AAC are considered "better" is because you can get away with a 128Kps or less file in some circumstances.
Re:Russia MP3 sites (Score:3, Interesting)
602 doesn't apply (Score:4, Interesting)
Importation is the act of taking copies or phonorecords across a border. Look at the definitions of "copy" and "phonorecord" in section 101. Copies are "material objects [...] in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device." Copies are real, physical things. Copies are not broadcasts or transmissions. When you have a song on a CD, the CD is the copy. When you have a song on a hard drive, or in RAM, the hard drive (or the RAM) is the copy.
When you download from allofmp3.com, or anywhere else, you're not transporting an actual copy, in tact. This is obvious because the copy is a physical thing: the copy of the song is the disk on which allofmp3 stores it. They didn't send you their disk. So, what happened? You made a copy of the song, and the new copy is the song fixed in your disk.
So you didn't import the song. You reproduced it. Reproducing a copyrighted song without permission of the copyright holder, or an applicable exemption, infringes the copyright holder's reproduction rights. Just because allofmp3 has the right to make those songs available to you under Russian law, does not mean you are authorized under US law to make your own copies, which is what you're doing when you download music from them.
For instance, let's say that merely "making available" does not infringe copyright. So, I put up a directory on a public webserver filled with music I bought from emusic.com or somewhere else. I may have a perfect legal right to place those songs online, merely doing so isn't distributing them for instance, but you still don't have a legal right to download them. It is no different with allofmp3.
Now, in Canada, in constrast, it is probably legal to use allofmp3.com. The private copying provisions of the Copyright Act do not not require that private copies be made from legitimate or authorized sources, merely that they are made for personal use and that they are made onto a recording medium that isn't prescribed.
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