Meet OnlineMusicRecorder
p2pnet.net News:- With world attention on the way in which an entire nation, America, is using its might and and political and financial resources to try to crush AllofMP3.com, one, small Russian music site, on behalf of the US entertainment industy, Jank0 has news of another site which is equally sure to get US trade rep Susan Schwab upset
“Onlinemusicrecorder.com. The site is offering 128 kbps encoded MP3s from major label artists like Coldplay, Beyonce or Justin Timberlake for free,” says Jank0 on P2P Blog.
And it’s all legal, say the site owners.
It works like this:
You sign up and, “Your recorder starts after you switch to ON. After 10 Minutes you will find the first music in your Recording list. Over 15 stations round the clock are recorded for you in parallel. Double mp3’s will be deleted.”
Is it legal?
It is, says the site, “due to private copyright law in most countries (example ¶53 UrhG for Germany). Download in Netherland is always allowed for private use. Links in Sweden are never illegal. Service compliant to DCMA.”
And …
“In Germany for example the ? 53 UrhG Absatz 2, ‘Zulässig ist, einzelne Vervielfältigungsstücke eines Werkes herzustellen oder herstellen zu lassen…’. You record from public available radio stations.”
How do you download the music?
We do not provide music files in mp3 format. You record the music in an .omrkey-File format, which needs to be decoded into mp3 on your local harddisk using a small software called Decoder.
This allows us a public download via peer to peer networks like torrent, emule or public mirrors. It’s the same system, which is used within ww.OnlineTvRecorder.com.
“Of course, most pirates wouldn’t use digital rights management,” says P2P Blog, going on:
Online Music Recorder does – sort of, at least. Each song is encrypted in a special OMRKey file format. Decrypting is possible with a software that can be downloaded from the Online Music recorder website.
Users need to enter their account name and password to start the decoding process. This information is supposedly used to check if the song was actually recorded with your own virtual radio recorder. There is no word on any watermarking, so I’d suspect the actual MP3 file stays pretty much unchanged.
The resulting MP3 is usually of acceptable quality. As good as a 128 kbps file can be, really. Some users report weird cuts in the beginning and end of the songs, which might be a side effect of the radio recording.
Online Music Recorder, “might not be the next Allofmp3,” says Jank0, “but this surely sounds like a new round in the never-ending cat and mouse game.”
(Thanks, Jazz)
Also See:
P2P Blog – Online Music Recorder: A free replacement for Allofmp3.com?, November 30, 2006
try to crush – USTR ‘AllofMP3.com’ paper, November 28, 2006
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May 21st, 2007 at 1:45 pm
i use allofmp3 more than 2 years and spent with them $200. also i found http://justmusicstore they are cheap and accept paypal.