AllofMP3.com Goes Free For Now

March 7, 2005 By Ian Bell

Russian officials will not shut down the popular MP3 download site despite urges from the RIAA and other agencies.

“On March 4th prosecutor’s office of Moscow’s Southwestern region refused to charge AllofMP3.com in a criminal lawsuit. What’s interesting is that AllofMP3.com did not win the case due to the compulsory licensing legislated in Russia. The prosecutor’s office affirmed that the Russian music site was distributing copyrighted music from its site, and in many cases did not have a proper license to distribute them. Russian criminal law severely punishes attempts to distribute copyrighted music without proper licensing procured first. However, Russian law is quite specific about distribution of material goods, as the law usually applies to CD and DVD pirating.”

Songs can be downloaded at AllofMP3.com for a fraction of the cost compared to music services such as MSN Music, iTunes and Napster.

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andrew at 5:23pm 5th August 2007 The saga of Allofmp3 is quite well known at this point. The company that was apparently following the laws of Russia for licensing music made a name for itself selling DRM-free music at very reasonable points. But AllOfMp3 is not lost forever. They have setup at least half-a-dozen other sites all utilizing the same music catalog, accounting system and website, albeit with a different design in each case. i write wides articles http://hubpages.com/hub/russianmp3site.. about 18 sites like allofmp3.