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Music Site AllofMP3 Under Investigation
Nick Irelan writes "AllofMP3.com, a Russian music site that is famous due to its low prices, has been accused of copyright infringment. Although the site said it bought licenses, some record companies are claiming that the documents it purchased aren't valid. The Moscow Police Computer Crimes Division has investigated AllofMP3 and the Moscow Prosecuter's office must decide what it will do by March 7th."
AllofMP3 bought valid licenses and even got the Brooklyn Bridge for $1 in the same deal.
you go to jail for being dumb enough to think what you were buying was legal.
lets look at the clues:
1)russian
2)mp3
3)download
4)no drm
-justin (#lp)
You mean... AllOfMp3's insanely cheap, Russian-hosted mp3s aren't entirely legal? I'm shocked!
Nooooooooooooo! I can't believe this, they were so good! lol... I used them for years whenever I ran out of credit on the iTunes store, cause well your 2p always went along way there! No wait, have I just incriminated myself?!?
In soviet Russia , music industry pays you!
also , In soviet Russia MP3 downloads you
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
5) PROFIT!... oh, wait.
Bears don't normally eat things that talk and move backwards.
In Soviet Russia... they can send you to Siberia - it's rather hard to get a good broadband connection there...
Phil
wow,good thinking to get rid of that account!
Now,get a lowbuget to Rio,do reconstructive surgery -change you looks,bribe a script kiddie to
get you one of those fake ones; ID,Driver,Pass,you name it,find a safe house and stash food..just maybe
its not TOO late,and you might get away.
the Moscow Prosecuter's office must decide what it will do by March 7th.
Hah!
They'll pick one of the usual courses of action:
1. Do nothing.
2. Have the OMON troops make the site owners "disappear".
Iam gonna finish my balance quickly and go back to bittorrent
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There are a number of cheap Russian MP3 sites, but AllOfMP3 seemed to be the best one---custom encoding parameters, good-sized catalog (300k+ songs, though lacking in "Mindless Self Indulgence"). And I was going to go legit with my MP3s (but in OGG format), just as soon as I got a job.
And so, today, to-frickin'-day, I get a job (manning phones at a call center, doing Level 1 support, whoopt-de-goddamn-do) and wouldn't you know it, AllOfMP3 is under investigation.
Man, that's ironic. Is it ironic? I keep forgetting. Things in that song aren't actually ironic. Is this?
Well, at least downloading music isn't criminal. (It's the sharing that is.)
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
American interests (RIAA etc) have paid off the Russian police (usually corrupt) to initate some bullshit investigation with the hope of getting them shut down because greedy US interests feel they are not getting enough of a slice and want a monopoly on cripplewared DRM'ed-to-death 1 bit music from their online stores.
Simple as that.
Fuck you American greed. And fuck you corrupt stupid Russian police.
This is why it's a good idea to only use stolen credit cards online.
What? You mean illegal stuff is cheaper than legitimate stuff? Well who da thunk it?
My whole collection is from there....
STFU album parasite!
Even if AllOfMp3 is legal, by buying our albums offshore, we take away the jobs of hard-working Americans in the recording industry, little people who toil for as little as 70 or 100 thousand dollars a year.
It's willful moral blindness to rationalize this kind of assault on the American worker as "watching the bottom line" or "getting lean and mean" or as "fiduciary responsibility" to your shareholders -- especially when almost all of the your savings on albums (as much as $15 per CD) goes into your own pocket and the pockets of your close cronies in the form of 'executive benefits', 'bonuses' and 'golden parachutes'.
Can you imagine the hue and cry if an American company did the sort of thing you're doing by buying from AllOfMp3.com? If an American company did business overseas just because that was cheaper, and put most of the savings into top executives" salaries and benefits, while at the same time causing American jobs to be lost?
Why that sort of thing wouldn't be tolerated for an instant, not by anyone who truly loves America! Congress would pass all sorts of new "Intellectual Property" laws to put an end to it, and the FCC would mandate that all TVs sold to the American public be modified to include hardware to prevent such theft. Because our leaders truly care about the little guy!
So for shame! Stop your overseas out sourcing of your entertainment budget, and remember we don't do that sort of things to our fellow Americans!
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