Is it all over for AllofMP3.com?
p2pnet.net News:- Is the bell finally tolling for AllofMP3? Sadly, that may be the case, suggests Fred Reichert over in Holland.
“You’d expect intervention by the Russian government but the final blow may come from another corner,” he emails, going on:
A few months ago direct payment to this Russian service was blocked by Visa and MasterCard. Users quickly found out that you could still pay through Alltunes and Xrost. Alltunes accepted both Visa and Mastercard, next to the far less popular Diners Club and JB card. Xrost offered just about any other way to pay.
No worries on the Eastern front so far.
Some users also discovered that buying Allofmp3 Gift Certificates was a nice way to help their friends without a Credit Card. Kind of a P2P method to buy download credit. These users even released special software to set up a web shop for dealing these Gift Certificates at http://aom3shops.ueuo.com.
But things have changed, and for the worst.
Xrost has mysteriously disappeared from the Allofmp3 website and in Alltunes, a payment with a Visa Card is no longer possible.
That leaves Alltunes as the only way to fill your Allofmp3 balance.
How long will this sitting duck last? Not long I’m afraid. If MasterCard pulls the plug, buying download credit is virtually impossible.
Allofmp3 can only hope to find a payment processor that dares to withstand the pressure from the Big 4, Warner Music (US), EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France) and Sony BMG (Japan and Germany).
If not, it will dry out painfully and slowly…
(Cheers, Fred, and thanks)
Also See:
Visa and MasterCard – AllofMP3.com credit cards blocked, October 20,2006
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February 9th, 2007 at 10:56 am
Of course, that will send us scurrying back to the american rental sites .. right ?
Nope,
I guarantee, the piracy ‘backlash’ against the cartels will be ….
large.
February 9th, 2007 at 11:13 am
They’ll do our standard Russian defense, take down the site and then come back out of the wood work with 100 clone sites with new methods of payment, and we’ll defeat those German… I mean cartel bastards!
February 9th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
they should go 100% free and accept a special form of payment working as a credit and setup legal companies to accept payments and transfer those funds to credits.
for example. allofmp3.com could sell 10$ worth of OXYGEN to you at no shipping cost. You purchase the air from a company which then posts the balance to allofmp3.com. Buying air isn’t illegal…. is it?
February 9th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
They could just sell points. Nothing to ship and no false claims. Surely if some third party sold points Vista nor any other company could have heart burn over that. According to the way corporations think, value is in the set price and not the eye of the beholder.
Prices would then be set to cost so many points per purchase with the value coming out to just what they were charging in cash. If allofmp3 wanted to get really nasty they could offer anti-cartel tee shirts and products to be shipped anywhere in the world. Those products would be legal almost anywhere and not strictly tied to music. Same thing, cost by point for each item. Since Allofmp3 shipping department could set the numbers of products and even have them change monthly if necessary, how are you gonna prove what is what to deny payment?
Allofmp3 could set up a shell companies for dealing with third party and it would leave the RIAA back to step one of playing crybaby about taking their ball home. That’s one of the things that drove them crazy with Kazaa was it took years to even determine who to sue.
May 21st, 2007 at 6:32 am
I started using http://Justmusicstore.com about 3 weeks ago and I love it! I pay 11 cents a song, around $1.50 for most of the albums that I want, got 30 bonus tracks, and I have not had a single problem yet. I would highly recommend it. I think beter use Justmusicstore then allofmp3.com
August 9th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Would be nice if an American company follows the model of all of mp3 however, in a way where there is no doubt about legality. Would get me to buy music online straight away.
Just wrote my view on this a bit more detailed at: http://blog.cumps.be/alltunes-mp3sparks-allofmp3-business-model/