Russian Court Acquits allofmp3.com Owner

An anonymous reader writes "Denis Kvasov, former owner of the music download website allofmp3.com, has been acquitted of violating intellectual property laws in a Moscow court. The court cited insufficient evidence of criminal activity — a question of fact — without touching the question of law of whether the site's activities (had they been proven by the prosecution) actually violated Russian copyright law. The trial's presiding judge said, 'I want to draw particular attention to the sloppy job done by prosecutors in collecting and analyzing the facts.' According to the Moscow Times, though, the allofmp3.com case is far from over. Two more criminal trials are scheduled to take place: one against Vladimir Mamotin, the media director of MediaServices, the parent company of allofmp3.com, and another against the company itself."

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Re:Big surprise?

[xtracto]

It's Russia we're talking about here. More corrupt than a NBA Basketball game. The last line of the article should also say "two more criminal trial dismissals are scheduled..."

You are assuming that they the guy is guilty, it seems the USA government has brainwashed you with the "guilty until proven innocent" mentality.

It is funny (ironic?) that it is in Russia where this "innocent until proven guilty" has a stand whereas in the USA RIAA and friends keep extorting innocent people when the fact is that it allofmp3 is legal or was legal until the RIAA used their power to extort the Russian government to change their laws (if it was a loophole or whatever else does not matter, it was /the law/).

Of course I understand you might find it amusing that there are some countries where people have the opportunity to defend themselves from Corporations; sadly this is changing slowly as such Corporations keep corrupting such countries.

To finish this post, thing for a moment, if the Judicial system in Russia is . More corrupt than a NBA Basketball game. then, I would suppose that Sony-BMG, Universal Music, EMI and Warner have CRAPLOADS of more money than the guy running allofmp3 and therefore could pay more to such corrupt people to win such lawsuits and whatnot...