AllofMP3.com ‘mythical employee’
p2pnet.net news:- We’ve just heard from the guys at AllofMP3 in Moscow. Their email referred to the arrest of 25-year-old man in the UK over his connection with an online voucher site.
Behind the police action were, to no one’s surprise, Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s BPI (British Phonographic Industry) and IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry).
“The arrested Londoner was hastily declared an employee of the European office of Allofmp3,” says the email, as well as a similar post on the download site.
But, “The Allofmp3 administration reiterates that the store has never had any activities outside Russia. Thus we do not have any offices or employees abroad. Allofmp3 operates in full compliance with Russian legislation and pays the necessary royalties to the rightholders and authors.”
It goes on:
The members of the IFPI are unable to do anything about the natural crisis the music industry faces in the digital era. Instead they engage in unfair competition practices and political lobbying. They make up “sensational” news to attract public attention to their activity which becomes less and less valid every day.
The recent actions against online music stores are connected to the considerable decrease in CD sales (50% in some European countries according to www.ifpi.org). The majors are trying to keep their super profits by any means. They block the natural transition from outdated physical media to newer means of delivering music to the consumer.
The IFPI / BPI turned a person reselling gift certificates into a “European office of Allofmp3″ in London. After that they initiated the loud “closure” of this “office” and an arrest of its mythical “employee”.
The young Londoner is a victim of music majors fighting the irreversible technological progress.
Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, after going down briefly because of server overload, yesterday, AllofMP3.com is now back online.
Also See:
online voucher site – AllofMP3.com ‘voucher’ arrest, May 22, 2007
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