“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.

“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.

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.

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 http://www.songboom.com that explains the differences between them all with a side-by-side comparison.

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?

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.

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!

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.

Check http://www.museekster.com/alofmp3faq.htm for more info.

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.