mp3 cd - legitimate or not?

[Dan Piponi]

The Russian record label RMG have a pair of Brian Eno mp3 CDs listed:
http://www.mp3cd.ru/cat/Foreign/eno1.html

AFAIK Russian copyright laws are a bit lax and it is legal there to
distributute online what most of the rest of the world considers to be
pirated music. But AFAIK Russian copyright laws are as strong as anyone
else's when it comes to physical media. So I can only presume that
these CDs are legitimate. I was then surprised to find it's actually
listed on Amazon (though not currently being sold by them) and it turns
out they're not too hard to import.

So what do you think? Legit or not? Is Eno getting paid for these CDs?
17 albums as high bit rate mp3 files on 2 CDs seems too good to be
true, but it seems unlikely that Amazon would list pirate material.

[Tom Boon]

Post by Dan Piponi
http://www.mp3cd.ru/cat/Foreign/eno1.html
[snip...]
So what do you think? Legit or not? Is Eno getting paid for these CDs?

They're bootlegs and Brian wouldn't see a penny. They even combine material
from different companies (Virgin/EMI and All Saints/Hannibal).

Post by Dan Piponi
I was then surprised to find it's actually listed on Amazon (though
not currently being sold by them)

Amazon is no guarantee of legitimacy -- the writer Neil Gaiman recently
reported that he bought a Phil Silvers DVD from Amazon and when he played
it, the end titles included BBC2 continuity announcements...

Tom
www.enoweb.co.uk