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I've seen similar such offerings on CD and DVD before. Ended up being performances by someone other than the original artists (in China in my case). Apparently perfectly legal. I purchased mine at Wallyworld. Interestingly enough, I actually like a couple of the performances. Most of them not so much. I didn't bother returning it.
 
Decibel_116 said:
I've seen similar such offerings on CD and DVD before. Ended up being performances by someone other than the original artists (in China in my case). Apparently perfectly legal. I purchased mine at Wallyworld. Interestingly enough, I actually like a couple of the performances. Most of them not so much. I didn't bother returning it.
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It is legal if you pay songwriter royalties. Let's see, 1600 songs times 9.1 cents per song....
 
As of today it still hasn't been taken down. eBay is pretty quick with takedowns for obviously fraudulent sales (e.g. a new 4TB hard drive for 20 bucks), so I'm going to guess that either reports of copyright violations go into a different email queue, or they just don't care.
 
swechsler said:
Not really, the worst that will happen is that his account is NARU'd, all he then needs to do is sign up with a new account using a different email address.
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Not just the trouble from Ebay. AFAIK, illegal downloading and selling can get you up to 5 years in prison and $150,000 per download - at least on papers. If you're doing this on Ebay, all your personal and financial information are available so no running away.
 
gogofast said:
Not just the trouble from Ebay. AFAIK, illegal downloading and selling can get you up to 5 years in prison and $150,000 per download - at least on papers. If you're doing this on Ebay, all your personal and financial information are available so no running away.
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A valid point, and one I hadn't thought of. I actually could see the RIAA prosecuting in an instance like this, and I would have no sympathy whatsoever for the seller.
 
if you really want to teach the kid a lesson, inform some of the labels about the auctions instead of reporting them to ebay, they'll have their infringement department buy a copy from the kid and then his life as he knows it is over. whereas all ebay is going to do is cancel the auction.
 
I don't know what you guys are on about....

This drive has the finest of hits from:

Celine Dion:

Europe:

Micheal Jackson:

Queen:

And much, much more!
 
Why are we the police for some organization? I mean isn't it the record companies...RIAA... the group that said that CDs would be cheaper because they cost less to make and then sold them for a couple bucks more because they could? They have a group that does that work and gets paid for it. All we get from them is another new demand for money for some newfangled way that music is distributed and they want a piece of everything. They may not get every penny they are entitled to but I don't think they are going broke.
 
Blue Shadow said:
Why are we the police for some organization? I mean isn't it the record companies...RIAA... the group that said that CDs would be cheaper because they cost less to make and then sold them for a couple bucks more because they could? They have a group that does that work and gets paid for it. All we get from them is another new demand for money for some newfangled way that music is distributed and they want a piece of everything. They may not get every penny they are entitled to but I don't think they are going broke.
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Every bit of that is true, but it still doesn't make it right for that guy to profit from stealing from the artists.
 
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