p2pnet.net News:- “The American government hopes it’s finally come up with the means to smash Russia’s AllofMP3.com on behalf of EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) and the only US record label, Warner Music, using the World Trade Organization talks as the hammer,” p2pnet posted a couple of days back.

An official Office of the November 19 United States Trade Representative document highlighted a “blueprint” of actions to be taken against AllofMP3.com.

“Russia has agreed to shut down Allofmp3.com and other music sites based in that country that the U.S. government says are offering downloads illegally,” said CNET News yesterday. “The nation has struck the agreement with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative as it seeks entry to the World Trade Organization. The U.S. has suggested that it would hold up Russia’s acceptance in the WTO unless leaders there took action against digital piracy.”

The US did not, of course, suggest anything. It was an outright demand.

But AllofMP3.com is still very much online, although it’s, “one of many internationally based download sites that the U.S. and several other countries are trying to close down,” says CNET.

“Music labels and movie studios say that such sites are not authorized to sell music and don’t compensate copyright holders.”

The Big Four Organized Music cartel’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), “would like U.S. law to prevail over Russian law in Russia,” said Vadim Mamotin, director general of Mediaservices, Allofmp3’s parent company, in a statement.

But, “the fact is that the sovereign rights of one nation can’t be trampled on by an outside organization like the RIAA,” he goes on. “And, although the RIAA tried in vain to link two disparate issues – the business dispute with AllofMP3 and the WTO matter – it was clearly a failed exercise insofar as they based the link on a misrepresentation about the illegality of AllofMP3.”

(Cheers, Bill)

Also See:
smash Russia’s AllofMP3.com – USTR ‘AllofMP3.com’ paper, November 28, 2006
CNET News – Russia agrees to shut down Allofmp3.com, November 29, 2006
statement – U.S. Consumers are Likely Legally Purchasing Music From AllofMP3.com, November 28, 2006

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