My review of Legalsounds was removed so I will post my comments here on Legalsounds. I'm a signed artist who has released some work for free a few years back. It's available for free on the netlabel www.subco.org . However, Legalsounds is trying to pull off money from unsuspecting customers by selling it on their website.
I do understand that people rave about LS's low prices on tracks, but be aware that in some cases, you're paying too much and filling LS's russian pockets with money that should still be yours!
Legal Sounds Review - using for 5 years
Hello,
I've been using LS for over 5 years now and cannot fault it one bit. Personally I only buy well known song and they've got enough bloody money for me to care. I prefer this site because I hate downloading from those other sites because you're downloading from other peoples computers and I used to get a lot of VIRUSES!!! With legal sounds you download from them directly and it's almost instant. Hate Itunes- complete rip off, the music companies should start trying to be a little more competitive than they are now.
Thanks :)
Legalsounds is awesome
Re: Legalsounds is awesome
Woah!
Support.
The.
Artists.
While we all sit here raging on at each other about what's right and what isn't, there are fantastic artists going under because people aren't buying their music. So instead of focusing the argument on the (even moral high-horse old me has to agree) ridiculously greedy record labels, let's look at it from the artist's perspective.
If you buy from legit sites, royalties - however small, however reluctantly - go to the artist. The bottom line is that LegalSounds (whether it tried and failed or simply didn't try at all; I don't think we'll ever really know) don't give royalties at all, however much you hedge it.
LegalSounds do not support their artists.
I know it sucks that the big guns like Amazon and iTunes take a lot of the cash for themselves, but a tiny royalty is better than a non-existant one, hey? :) And it doesn't hurt to find out which sites which give their artists the largest percentage.
Buying directly from an artist - from their website, during gigs, etc - is another good way of making sure they're getting what they deserve. After all, at the other end of all of this, the music we're Limewiring, Youtubing or LegalSounding is someone else's work. Hours of time, promotion, stress, and bloody hard work; all poured into one three-minute song we've taken a shine to. It's mental.
So if we have it on our iPods or CD players, I think it's... almost common sense to pay the £0.79/$0.99. Or if not common sense, common courtesy. I mean, if you loved a work of art and wanted it in your house, you'd gladly pay the painter... right? Or if you went out to eat and loved the service, you'd also gladly pay - maybe even give a tip!
Music's an awesome thing, and so I believe we should all support the artists we love. It's a very unpopular view - ripping it off YouTube is cheaper and so easy these days - but one that I think everyone should at least hear, whether they agree or not.
I know that if I was an artist, I'd sure want my music to be bought. And I'm pretty sure you would too! :)
Anyway, that's me done; thanks for reading if you got to the end. I'll stop rabbiting on now... us humans and our bloody opinions, eh? :P
- Nova, 16, UK.
P.S. And because this topic's getting kinda... cut-throat, I'd just like to clarify that the last statement I made was a joke. x
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Is Legalsound.com illegal?
Sure it's legal
It's bad enough musicians
legal sounds decision
you need to toughen up and
It's definitely illegal - >
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I'll post here when things appear to be back to normal.
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It's not down, it's blocked.
If you don't like American
Shut up, idiot.
That's not the way I see it.
You're right
I agree.
Think about what you're really paying for:
The capability of listening to a song when you like. That is it - nothing else. The music has already been produced, you can listen to it for free elsewhere (radio, whatever) - all you are paying for is the convenience.
And music companies want you to pay for this in several ways - by listening to accompanying ads on the radio, or looking at ads online when you use a music service, or buying a CD, or buying a MP3, or - god forbid - buying the latest and greatest music media format.
Who here has paid for the convenience of listening to a song more than once? Buy the CD for $15, and then later the MP3, and ... when will this end?
You don't own it, you can't let others listen to it (according to the music industry), you can't share it, you can't make new music from it, you don't have any rights whatsoever to what you have paid for - you basically can't do a damn thing with it except listen to it when you like. How much is that really worth?
Typical US nationalist moron argument
It's Blocked
Sounds like something fishy is going on.
Legal service
Legalsounds
Man I read some of ur
Legal Sounds are definitely stealing from me.
Legal Sounds gave me a virus
legalsounds
The Legality Doesn't Matter...
where to buy hard to get titles then?
Legality doesn't matter..?
Perhaps you are overlooking the most important point, John: legalsounds is doing everything legal, and *attempting* to compensate the artists. The record companies have rejected the payments (to the artists) to try to say "we won't play by your rules". In this case, it is not Legalsounds that is refusing to pay the artists - it is the major labels themselves.
Thought that the labels are siding with the aritsts? Think again. They want more money, and don't give a damn about paying the artists from the pile of money (royalties) that Legalsounds (and other Russian music sites) have been paying to the legal entities in Russia for exactly that purpose.
So who is it really that is ripping off the artists?
Compensation???
Legality doesn't matter..
Legality matters
John -
The legal entities in Russia responsible for collecting royalties doesn't pay the royalties in the same sense that your utility company refuses to accept money from you when you attempt to pay your bill. If they don't want your money, you can't exactly force them to take it.
In Russia, there are a couple of organizations that are the legal entities for collecting royalties for the work of the artists. Legalsounds pays them. The labels won't accept the money, because they don't like not being able to force the legal entities there to do what they want.
If I were an artist, I would be angry at my record label for refusing to give me any royalties, regardless of how much they are. Since the Russian entities likely set their own rates at which a label or artist can receive a royalty, we don't know either if the artist is entitled to 90% of the price of a song (which would be on par with what they would receive from iTunes) or what. So you are right, we don't know the details. For all we know, the Russian system could favor the artists more highly than the labels, and that could be the reason that the RIAA/IFPI don't want to play by their rules. Perhaps the artists would benefit more than the labels under the Russian system.
Of course, like you, I am only able to speculate.
Stealing Cars
Trolling...
John-
My interest it to help people that are confused by the propaganda repeated time and time again regarding music downloads from stores that are not mainstream.
You failed to respond or comment on any of my points - at this point, I believe I have identified a Troll.
Your analogy isn't even remotely applicable. In fact, it appears that you've taken one of the most beloved examples from the music industry and tried to repeat it here to make an impression on others.
Here is why its wrong:
1) Theft, as in your example, is a separate issue entirely, and isn't what we are talking about. If you would like to enlighten yourself, please google "Copyright Infringement" to find out what the difference is. Unfortunately, the music industry tried to draw a parallel between two totally different legal concepts to scare people (hence those terrible short ads before watching a DVD/Movie where they liken stealing a car to downloading music). Evidently the misrepresentation they make works, since you were able to remember it and repeat it here.
Simply put, Copyright Infringement is and never was theft. If I were to Google for an album, download it for free (which is, believe it or not, easy to do) and it was not supposed to be made available for free - then I am infringing on someone's copyright.
2) Lets reverse the situation. Say I download a Russian Label song from iTunes. iTunes pays the RIAA (or a record label therein) a royalty. Lastly, ROMS (or whoever in Russia) refuses the royalty from the RIAA/Label. Am I, as person downloading from iTunes, responsible for the issues between the RIAA and ROMS? I am not. If they don't like to work with each other, it is their problem - not mine. End consumers are not responsible for ensuring that contracts between record labels and royalty collectors are honored and upheld. If they have problems with their contractual obligations, it is up to them to fix them by whatever legal fashion available to them. If the legal entities in Russia that collect the royalties for the labels are not operating according to Russian Law, then we would expect that the RIAA/IFPI/Whoever would have pursued them in court a long, long time ago.
The advent of the internet and the global marketplace has changed things. If I were to buy, for example, a bottle of aspirin for $8 in the USA, I would pay closer to $50 where I live for the same thing. Does this mean I cannot take advantage of the cheaper price the USA has to offer to get the same thing? Not at all.
The major record labels are scared - the global marketplace has them fighting tooth and nail to try to regain the old way of doing things (meaning they make more money).
Please refrain from trolling further in this forum.
Not paying artists
This subject came up on one
They don't pay artists
It's interesting and
Legalsounds
What about the artists
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It's the credit card
Download Costs
I agree
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Legalsounds are trustworthy.
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