Originally Posted by Diabo

Don't know about allofmp3.com, but in The Netherlands and many other countries artists receive money for private copying through a levy charged on blank CDs, DVDs, etc.: http://www.onbezorgdkopieren.nl/User...ven%202005.pdf (pdf file in dutch, but I'm sure you can read the numbers). Any recording company - not just the dutch ones - can apply for a cut.

If you burn your own pictures on a DVD, you still pay the artists. Even if you never ever listen to any music and never buy blank CDs the artists still get some of your money, because clubs, theaters, opera houses etc. are subsidized.