Russia’s allTunes defeats IFPI
p2pnet news | music:- Last year Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) succeeded in persuading VISA and MasterCard to ban payments to Russian music download site allTunes, using alleged copyright infringement as the excuse.
However, a Moscow court has ruled the action was illegal.
AllTunes owner Internet-Audit sued Rosbank, VISA’s Russian agent, and affiliate United Card Services (UCS), it tells p2pnet.
Internet-Audit says the City Arbitration Court of Moscow ruled the “unilateral refusal to fulfil the acquiring agreement” Rosbank and UCS had concluded with Alltunes was against the law.
The decision on whether or copyrights have been infringed, “can only be taken by [a] court based on a suit filed by exclusive copyright holders, but neither IFPI nor VISA own such rights”, says the court decision.
“World industry giants represented by IFPI resort to administrative resources and unfair competition,” states Internet-Audit.
The entertainment cartels, with the Bush administration tucked in tight behind them, “are well pleased with themselves,” p2pnet posted at the beginning of the month going on, “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.”
Stay tuned.
Also See:
p2pnet – AllofMP3.com offline, July 3, 2007
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July 14th, 2007 at 1:19 am
AllOfMp3.com is dead. Long live http://www.mp3sparks.com/ where your AOM3 account has probably ended up.
It doesn’t appear to accept credit card payment if you come from a major western country as checked via your IP address.
There’s a clue in there.
July 14th, 2007 at 3:31 am
Good to see MP3Sparks back online again.
Julian is right about the IP check. You can use Tor or a proxy to bypass this BTW
July 14th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
CC is back working at mp3sparks.
July 14th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
mp3sparks is up again i gave them $100.00 today the equivalent of 50 -60 cd’s. which is about $1500.00.
riaa? insignificant.
July 18th, 2007 at 5:52 am
I don’t get it. Why would you give your money to a guy who sells the musical equivalent of crakz and warez, when you can do your shoplifting yourself on P2P’s for free ?
July 25th, 2007 at 4:12 am
@Joe:
Why? It’s totally legal in russia so it’s not shoplifting.
Compare it to the following; In Germany it’s allowed to drive as fast as you want on the highway, in the Netherlands 120 is the maximum speed. If you drive 220 in Germany and then come in the Netherlands and the dutch police will give you a fine for driving 220. Could that be? Offcourse not.
AOM3 was totally legal, so is mp3sparks and a few other sites. The government of the USA is just busy making more enemies in the world with their dictatorial behavior.
By the way, downloading is something else as shoplifting (here it’s even legal by law) since there’s no visible harm done. And it’s not nobody buys cds anymore, I still collect vinyl, it’s just not everybody buys 20cd’s a month like the labels want.
Al this has nothing to do about music and artists anymore, because they make a good living by performing, it’s just the labels want to maximize their profit.