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Originally Posted by Tiger
There are legal sites. Like mp3sale.ru that are only ten cents a song and still pay artist royalities, but are not located in the states so they don't have to sell for a minimum cost. I don't have a problem paying for music, i only have a problem paying too much for it and the artist getting so little.
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You don't actually believe that do you? Those sites are rumored to be run by the Russian mob and basically pay nothing to anyone. They use a loophole in Russian digital copyright law that allows them to sell pirated music without permission from the owner and keep almost 100% of the money. In the event that they actually do pay Russian statutory royalties (which amount to tiny fractions of a cent for every song sold), they're paid to a Russian licensing group and never end up in the hands of artists.
Those sites are the worst of both worlds. You still have to pay money to some shady company but the artists and owners of the music get nothing. You might as well just pirate the music and at least save yourself some cash.