AllofMP3 closer to final shutdown
While authorities in the United States and Europe can’t directly shut down Russia music store AllofMP3.com, which they say sells songs without paying licenses or royalties to artists, they have been successful in cutting off the site’s ability to take money from customers outside Russia. PayPal, MasterCard and Visa have already stopped handling payments for the service, leading AllofMP3 to resort to a “voucher” system, which United States and European consumers could use to purchase music. Songs on the site are offered for pennies, far less than licensed services like Apple’s iTunes. The voucher system, however, received a major blow with the arrest of a 25-year-old man in London. According to IFPI, a group representing the recording industry internationally, the individual was the UK-based European sales representative for AllofMP3, selling vouchers on a Web site and auction services like eBay.
The man charged 10 pounds for each voucher, and transferred the money into various offshore bank accounts used by AllofMP3. Thousands of vouchers had been sold, according to Metropolitan Police who conducted a dawn raid earlier this month and seized computers and other documents. Despite false claims by the site that it pays record companies and artists, it has no permission from record companies to sell downloads in the UK and has been illegally undercutting legitimate services such as iTunes, Napster 2.0 and HMV Digital by not compensating the artists and record companies concerned,” IFPI said in a statement.
For its part, AllofMP3 parent company Mediaservices continues to assert its legitimacy. “The availability over the Internet of the ALLOFMP3.com materials is authorized by the license # LS-3?-05-03 of the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society (ROMS). In accordance to the licenses’ terms Mediaservices pays license fees for all materials downloaded from the site,” a notice on the site says. Pressure on the site continues to grow. AllofMP3 is blocked in Denmark and Germany, and an Italian version is under investigation. In December, United States music publishers sued the company for $1.65 trillion. In addition, Russia has been specifically asked to shut down the site if it wishes to join the World Trade Organization. And finally, with no way how to pay for the music, the site doesn’t have many options how to stop this slow death…
Source: Betanews
Wtz NexT ?.
aww well– it was good while it lasted — there will be plenty more to come , i am baffled why they spend so much time and effort shutting this and that down, when another will take its place as always..and make more than the last.. In fact already they are snapping at the heals of allofmp3 — http://hotmp3download.com/ —-as i said one down another will take the place and make more money faster and faster — unlimited downloads for £18 — $36 — FOREVER… You cant slow it down.. regRDS caLm
http://digg.com/tech_news/AllofMP3_Closer_to_Being_Shut_Down
Digg it!
I forgot to say.. Does this happen in the Torrent world — take
http://thepiratebay.org/ for example they publish and humiliate every step taken by the big players to stop people sharing certain files under their own Laws.. http://thepiratebay.org/legal this is worth checking out over a cup of coffee.. — Let the debate begin — oh and by the way this is only constructive critisism rlslog — get A FORUM set up fgs and stop affiliating to New torrents and share info on behalf of everyone… regRDS caLm
#3, vertigo
Thx for the post i am stunned that Russia has been asked to close it down B4 they join the W.T.O. (world trade organisation).. You have to admire the power of the music industry considering the money they say they –OH SRY– I mean their ARTISTS r loosing LOl .. Ta..
it’s not blocked in germany - i just tried it. never been there before so it couldn’t have been in my cache as well
Wtz the Stry Mrning GrY!
haha — 1.65 TRILLION dollars, do they actually expect that money? i wonder if they got that number out of thin air or out of their asses or possibly out of their accountants asses — whoevers ass it came out from, it is ludicrous
They gotta have a big foookin asss to have that kinda cash inside,, i thinkk they got it from the second shelf on the left ..
regRDS caLm
Let us pray for our Russian brothers.
Where is Amnesty International when you need them??????
Hello guys! Don’t be afraid about allofmp3..
I am pretty sure they’ll manage to survive. Besides, they shut it down only for non-Russian users, sorry. It is still running for us though =) However, non of us being sane to use it anyways. It has been created mostly for you. We got plenty of “free-mp3″ web-sites. Why pay if can get it for free.. Personally, I agree with “royalty” stuff, but you should see for yourself how expensive original CDs and DVDs back here. All that fuss is about WTO, indeed.
Greetings from Russia! May the great sharing force be with you! =)
I’m from Russia and I’m still remember those days, when allofmp3 was TOTALLY free with no pay at all…good old days…
My huge fucks fly out to W.T.O. and other US|EU organisations, who wants to close this amazing site! Burn in hell, stupid morons!
allost.ru and mp3search.ru are next I suppose?
all of these sites used to be free sites!
They deserved this, selling something that they don’t own is WRONG!!!
I really surprised at how the Crown Prosecution Service justifies this action? How is this in the public interest? At best it’s civil action that needs to be taken not criminal action. I for one shall be writing to my MP asking them why, instead of wasting police time and resources on this, are they not using them to catch the people who threatened to shoot me and my colleagues at work a few weeks ago or the people who then broke in a week after that at work rather than waste public tax payers money going after someone who isn’t hurting the tax paying public in the slightest.
When allofmp3 started I had a few months of 1000 songs each month at 15 dollar. Most of my music collection is from that time.
hotmp3download.com looks like a scam site where you pay for file sharing, nothing like allofmp3 which hosted files themselves and ripped into lossless formats for you.
i use allofmp3 more than 2 years and spent with them $200. also i found musicly.info they are cheap and accept paypal.
@ Lee Ramsdale
Sorry about threatening to shoot you and your colleagues at work a few weeks ago. You guys were just really pissing me off at the time.
No hard feelings. Thanks.
allmus
musicly.info really good site
Thank you
Hey my anus it actually feels good giving it to them instead of the RIAA….Untill artist realize they are getting screwed and sell music themselves or some other way they deserve what they get…It isn’t like they are starving or anything…HAHA
don’t even bother with hotmp3download.com. They refuse to let you return anything and horrible service. your basically paying for a p2p system(hello queing/horrible download rate).
Why is it so hard to find a site that has a lot of music, won’t give you a virus, and won’t cost a buck a track? Honestly..