Is this legal?

[sebastiaan56]

Im not up on current copyright law. Laypersons opinions please, do you reckon that the downloads from here would be legal? I certainly looks legit.

www.mp3fiesta.com

Sebastiaan

[kiwigeo]

Legality of this and other sites is questionable. They may be legal under Russian copyright law but may not comply with copyright law outside Russia. See here for details:

http://www.jhtl.org/docs/pdf/Budylin_article.pdf

[sebastiaan56]

Thanks Martin, as I thought, Caveat Emptor. Now the moral dilemma........

[kiwigeo]

Personal choice mate......apparently royalties do get paid to performers but the amount is a fraction of royalties paid outside Russia.

[Hesh1956]

Yeah it's the same old Napster crap IMHO and would be something that I would not participate with.

For the artists this kind of royalty free distribution of their IP is a horror..... As instrument builders I would consider it prudent to support the artists.

As a human being, and I use that term loosely for myself........ I just would not want to support it either.