Indie Music

One Indie Reacts To Russian Download Sites

Controversial Russian download site allofmp3 has been neutered but mp3sugar is still selling deeply discounted downloads and more than one indie label is understandably unhappy about it. We asked Bill Swartzberg of small inide Anaphora Music to comment: "Our label’s Three5Human has tracks on mp3sugar.com. I feel better
about it since you (Hypebot) let us know that a $19.95 upfront fee is required.   I have a couple of thoughts about the pirate sites:
  • Mp3sugar_3
    I was able to find 15-20 sites
    with different names that all put the user eventually to mp3sugar, so they have
    been aggresive.
  • Of course, I have no way of
    knowing how many sales were lost, but this site looks professional and displays Visa & Mastercard logos that makes it look legit enough for even web-savvy
    people to order from.
  • We are also concerned about
    the sound quality; the sample played from this site sounds terrible.  In the
    end, we could not only miss sales but lose  fans also due to poor sound
    quality.
  • Allofmp3_14
    Maybe persuading Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal not to deal with these sites is the quickest way for
    results; this seems to have hurt allofmp3 more than any government crackdown
    so far."

We’d love to hear from others about your experiences with and opinions of mp3sugar and allofmp3.

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  1. It’s very easy to use our site – whithout your registration just choose a song or album you like, pay me through e-gold and download it! No directing links, everything is simple and convenient! Enjoy our smaller music collection!

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