Russian MP3 Sites
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I'm a real fan of music. I love rock, RnB, hip hop, metall and other genres. One day I decided to pay less for the music I want to have. I used allofmp3.com to download music for my mp3 collection for low price. After they shut down allofmp3, I'm searching for another good website to download mp3 music. Currently I'm using MP3Fiesta to download cheap and legal music from. I'm also using several others when I need to download something special (but, frankly speaking, MP3Fiesta has a very impressive music catalog).
Prices at MP3Fiesta are acceptable for me (average song costs about $0.10, that is 9 times cheaper than Amazon, iTunes, or any other US site). I also like their design and downloading speed - it's really fast and doesn't annoy with ads or speed limits.
MP3Fiesta has a nice feature as songs preview. You can listen any song for free to see if it's right what you want. Try it and send me your feedback!
There are also alternative websites that I use:
1. Soundike
2. MP3Sale
3. LegalSounds
Latest Stories about Russian MP3 Websites
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Legality of Russian MP3 Websites
Keep in mind that the services are perfectly legal in Russia. The laws there enforces compulsory licenses, which means that anyone can get the license to distribute and sell music as long as they pay for it. In the US if you plan to sell a certain CD, you have to talk with the labels, and that's the reason the original Napster got shut down by the courts - they were violating the law by not getting the licenses from the RIAA mob.
In Russia if you show and prove that (a) you keep track of what you're distributing (log number of downloads) and (b) you pay to the collection agency, you're legal to distribute any music you want. The collection agencies (ROMS and FAIR, quoted in the Wall Street Journal article) will then re-distribute the money to the copyright owners.
Thus, it's obviously true that Russian MP3 Websites are able to sell cheap and legal mp3 music.
Since, the Internet doesn't have any boundaries, you are free to use the services you may find on the Internet. Responsibilty to meet the laws are solely forwarded to the service owners. As you see, those Russian services are legal in Russia, so you're using legal product from Russia.
