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p2pnet news | music:- The entertainment cartels, with the Bush administration tucked in tight behind them, are well pleased with themselves.
They’ve managed to close down yet another competitor which threatened their failing efforts to gain control of how, and by whom, ‘product’ is distributed online.
AllofMP3.com, the Russian download site which, unlike iTunes, and the tiny handful of other corporate download sites, all indelibly marked by their complete failure to attract online music lovers, was offering music at prices people could afford, is offline.
p2pnet emailed them this morning, but we haven’t yet had a response.
“How does it feel to be a principal target of the American anti-p2p effort?” - p2pnet asked MediaServices, the company behind the site, recently.
“It is disappointing that United States Trade Representative Susan Schwab completely and deliberately mischaracterized AllofMP3.com,” was the response. “Furthermore, it is irresponsible to use AllofMP3.com as a negotiating instrument in an attempt to extract concessions from Russia in return for US support for accession to the World Trade Organization.
“AllofMP3.com is a Russian business that is in complete compliance with Russian law.”
However, allTunes.com is still up and running.
Moreover, “In April, the firm began encouraging AllofMP3 users to switch to a new site called MP3Sparks.com, which says it is owned by a firm called Regiontorg,” according to The Register.
“MP3Sparks uses the same claims to legality as AllofMP3 did, and an identical interface, which contained references to AllofMP3 when it launched,” it says. “All three sites punt tracks for between about $0.10 and $0.20 each.”
During our interview with MediasServices, “Competition is good,” we opined: “it promotes free choice. But neither ‘choice’ nor ‘competition’ are words found in cartel lexicons. So a massive, and ongoing, multi-million-dollar campaign has been mounted against AllofMP3.com by the cartels, with the record labels to the fore.”
We added:
Leading it on behalf of the labels and other vested interests is the US administration, which has brought its full weight down on a handful of people in another country who dare to compete with Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, with the major movie studios and software houses lurking darkly in the background.
In rich irony, only Warner Music can be said to be truly American. And even it’s run by Canadian. The other three members of the Big 4 music cartel are EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, based in Britain, France, Japan and Germany, respectively.
In other words, the US government is generously spending money provided by American tax payers to help four foreign companies maintain an iron grip on a market whose openness would benefit American artists as much, if not more, than artist in other countries.
Stay tuned.
Also See:
p2pnet - p2pnet talks to AllofMP3.com, May 28, 2007
The Register - Russian copyright wars to continue despite AllofMP3 shutdown, July 3, 2007
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July 3rd, 2007 at 7:22 am
Shut down at long last!
What with all the p2p companies dropping like flies, we will soon be back in control and monetizing the massive internet market like it was supposed to be from the start.
Oh and all this crappy DRM-free fad with iTunes etc will go away, too. The consumer will soon be empowered to pay for music in ways never conceived before.
Just you wait and see.
July 3rd, 2007 at 8:42 am
I guess you have never heard of bittorrent or irc then ?
July 3rd, 2007 at 9:31 am
Allofmp3 users can use MP3Sparks with their Allofmp3 username and password.
Check www.museekster.com/alofmp3faq.htm for more info.
July 3rd, 2007 at 9:32 am
Oops. Should URL should be www.museekster.com/allofmp3faq.htm
July 3rd, 2007 at 10:30 am
“Shut down at long last!”
A troll RIAA parasite is opening is pipe hole.
You guys are delusional. You are dying. In few more years and they will be nothing left of you.
Concerning the consumer paying for music? Yes but not to you. directly to the artists, those that are actually doing something. Sorry. you are out of the loop parasite!
The people of this country is no longer supporting an industry of vice and moral decay that encourage murder, torture and rape.
Concerning the law suit against the citizen, the rope is broken you are playing with fire and frankly I think it does not worth the risk for a dying business. Sorry the party is over.
And since you are violating our constitution (extortion, corruption of governement officials and judges, and some time murders) have a good time in jail time dealing with the crap you contributed to grow, parasites! Hopefully they will through out the key.
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:45 pm
“Shut down at long last!
What with all the p2p companies dropping like flies, we will soon be back in control and monetizing the massive internet market like it was supposed to be from the start.
Oh and all this crappy DRM-free fad with iTunes etc will go away, too. The consumer will soon be empowered to pay for music in ways never conceived before.
Just you wait and see.”
Yep, you sound about as idiotic as the people who are in the RIAA. Though I think you are just some “wanna be” trying to stir up trouble.
But for your information, the people who used their username and password on allofmp3.com can NOW use it on Mp3Sparks.com….so all that has happened is that MP3 Sparks.com has BECOME allofMp3.com!
But you sound too stupid to grasp that!
Tell you what, why don’t you go to a statistics place like big champaigne and look at how filesharing is growing….NOT DYING! Mabye then, you will realize how stupid your little rant just sounded!
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:28 pm
The trolls are alive and well I see. With cd sales dying, there’s not much hope for the music industry that based it’s operations on distribution and screwing everyone that did business with them. Now that cds are tanking, the distribution channel is drying up. Walmart won’t be able to sell digital tunes at the present in their stores, nor will the rest of the chains. Unless they come up with a cheap container to do the job, distribution is out. That means the truckdrivers, warehouses, and middlemen are soon to be gone. This is a direct wish of the cartels to eliminate the cd. So the blame for secondary and third party jobs is attributed to them and not piracy.
I’ve never wanted the on-line sales. There is nothing to show for your money. No decent sized artwork like that which used to come with records. Get a virus, your crap on the puter is gone if you didn’t burn it. So are all those licenses that allow you to burn so many times before it ends. The idea that there is an end to burning as a limitation is enough alone to ensure it isn’t worth the money. When you buy something, it is yours. If it isn’t totally yours, then you didn’t really buy, you rented. The cost is way to high to be renting. For the quality given, the product sucks. Now before you go off half cocked with iTunes selling 256 bit rate, take a look at the pressed cd. It ran a quality of around 3000 in bit rate and 256 is a long ways off of that. But the tunes are still selling for around the same price. Less of anything for the same price is never a deal. No more than the same of anything for paying extra is ever going to be a deal.
No, I’m like the rest of the public. I’ve had it with the cartels, the way they do business, and the stink of moral decay anytime you get in the vicinity of where they are. Sue em all is not acceptable and they are teaching a whole new generation a right good message. Don’t fool with cartel offerings, ever. Buying a pig in the poke is never a bargain.
July 4th, 2007 at 10:57 am
AllofMP3.com alleges that Russian intellectual property laws mean the societies that licensed AllofMP3.com do not need the permission of copyright owners.
If that were true….
Then someone extorted (as in EXTORSION) the russian government to get it to violate russian law by pressuring AllofMP3.com to close down.
If that were not true….
Then AllofMP3.com is lying to the world.
What is the truth?
July 4th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Alltunes still works.
July 5th, 2007 at 2:06 am
The truth us: in Russian, AllOfMP3 is legal.
As a user, the status of using AllOfMP3 in most countries is still not clear: meaning that likely there isn’t specifically a law that clearly states that it is illegal for you as a customer to use a service like AllOfMP3 in your country. In some countries, though, it is clear: in Germany it is still legal, and it remains so in other countries as well (as a home consumer).
If you cut off one head, another one appears to take it’s place: that’s the ‘hydra effect’. There will always be alternatives, even if Mp3Sparks closes down too.
There is a huge list of sites similar to AllOfMP3 at www.songboom.com that explains the differences between them all with a side-by-side comparison.
July 5th, 2007 at 5:14 am
“As a user, the status of using AllOfMP3 in most countries is still not clear: meaning that likely there isn’t specifically a law that clearly states that it is illegal for you as a customer to use a service like AllOfMP3 in your country.”
This answers a diffrerent question, if downloading from any site is legal or not. But that was not the question. The question is if it is true that russian law allows the licensing of songs to AllOfMP3 to allow AllOfMP3 to sell songs even though the organization that licensed AllOfMP3 does not represent the song owners of both the recording and song copyrights.
Another question is how does the russian rights organization that licensed AllOfMP3 pays me in a song of mine is downloaded 10 million times if the song along with my name and address is registered with them? At 9.5 american cents per download (the actual official royalty rate for CD sales) the due payment is $900,000.
Clearly there is something wrong with russian law if I do not get paid anything and that is legal in Russia.
Maybe it is no fault of AllOfMP3 that the russian law has a loophole, as most laws have, and that loophole is exploited by AllOfMP3 as most law loopholes are exploited everywhere.
Anyway there are still unaswered questions.
July 5th, 2007 at 6:24 am
Correction to previous post
“if the song along with my name and address is registered with them”
meant to say
if the song along with my name and address is NOT registered with them?
This is an important question, because, as without knowing my names I could not possibly be paid.
July 14th, 2007 at 6:24 am
The RIAA will NEVER take control of the share of files. You need to know that right here and now. You are running in a hamster wheel, going no-where in progress. As you view this message many people all over the WORLD are downloading torrents and distributing trillions of files. You can try all you want, however, the distribution of illigal media. You think you’re so funny dont you, however, you’re wrong. As you view this message there are also many other private p2p swapping nettworks and multinettwork shares being formed and runned and we speak. So really, you cant win, the govenment is a tiny ioda swimming through a deep sea of the people.
“The government by the people and for the people shall not perish from the face of the earth.”
Dont doubt us RIAA, it will continue. Try all you want and keep running your fat asses on the hamster wheel. This is the revolution and it will NEVER stop. Applaud it. Live with it.