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by Freak_NL 921 days ago
It's not too hard to figure out that this one of those cowboy sites operating from Ukraine¹ with quite dubious claims as to their legality:

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/2412fb/the_web...

https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-and-mpaa-report-notorious-pira...

The gist seems that buying stuff there may be legal if you are Ukrainian or are actually in Ukraine, and quite probably isn't if you are anywhere else.

The RIAA certainly considers them shipless pirates. You are probably paying criminals, and almost certainly are not paying artists.

1: There seem to be a bunch of them, which smells a bit like a coordinated effort.