Visa Cuts Off AllOfMp3.com

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday October 19, 2006 @02:17AM from the ends-with-a-whimper dept.

denebian devil writes "On the heals of allofmp3.com's press conference trying to clean up its image, Visa has suspended its credit card service to allofmp3.com. From the article "[Allofmp3 is] no longer permitted to accept Visa cards," said Simon Barker, a Visa International spokesman. "The action we've taken is in line with legislation passed in Russia and international copyright law." Almost simultaneously, allofmp3.com has announced that it is shifting over to an ad-supported model. For those who don't want to (or can't) buy allofmp3's DRM-free music, they are providing DRM-laden music that can be played only within a restricted player provided by the website."

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Re:great timing ;( by TheGratefulNet · 2006-10-19 02:45 · Score: 0, Troll

this, very clearly, is NOT about illegal vs legal.

if it was illegal it would have been shut down BY LAW ENFORCEMENT years ago.

law enforcement != visa != mpaa != riaa.

got it.

good.

you can't, on one side, say its illegal and that's why visa stopped it. so why is MC still in the game, then?

your logic fails.

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