Comments on: Big Music loses to AllofMP3.com

By: Reader's Write

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By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:09:13 +0000

Seems that allofmp3.com is down (has been for the last day or so). Can’t find anything about it but both the Allofmp3 Explorer and WWW page are inaccessible.

Perhaps a it will come back up, I doubt it… I wonder what’s on the other channel?…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:11:11 +0000

looks like the russians are protected by their law, but does anyone know whether there’s UK law that still makes it illegal to be in receipt of music from here ?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:28:20 +0000

Once this NEWS spreads on the net all the dollar music net stores are SUNK!!!!!! Hey major labels the JIG is up!!!!!! and no DRM too!!!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 02:41:13 +0000

as i said some weeks ago, this seemed to be much a PR crusade intended for the western “music pirates” in order to show them, how serious the efforts of IFPI are. at the time we read in every western newspaper that allofmp3 is going to be closed, no russian newspaper considered this announcement worthy a message. already in december the most russian sources stated, that the IFPI or RIAA will hardly achieve the desired goal. now it’s proved and i wonder if the IFPI will admit its defeat as loud as they proclaimed a near victory. probably they’ll keep silent.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 01:20:36 +0000

Hooray!

Apart from personally benefiting, the thing I find fascinating about allofmp3 is the business model. I think there’s potentially a huge business in doing a western based site using exactly the same model and with the blessing of the record companies. I’d put every back catalogue, deleted and straight old music up and use exactly the same model of offering multiple encodings and charging by the megabyte.

I just don’t expect anyone in the biz to “get it” any time soon.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 00:06:04 +0000

Finally, a situation where the RIAA and IFPI can’t immediately bully their way into a favorable decision. Consider all of AllofMP3 to be the Rasputin of the “unsanctioned” music conduits. In just about every other instance, they have managed to create a stoppage through threats of and on occasion the actual carrying out of legal actions. But not with the Russians. In this case the Recording Industry and its cronies have stabbed, strangled, shot and poisoned the site and its operators, yet they refuse to die.

I for one, applaud the Prosecutor of South Western Moscow for rendering a fair interpretation of the LAW as it is written in their books. There was no major influence over the decision as a result of generous gifts and tremendous lobbying force from the Recording Industry. The laws were consulted, and finding that digitized goods exist under different rules and conditions than their physical counterparts, the case was rejected.

Who during the cold war would ever have expected that the Russians would be the most progressive in terms of intellectual property law? Fascinating stuff. An artist is automatically entitled to the rights to his or her own work, as far as I understand it, preventing situations that commonly occur in the US wherein the Record Companies own an artists entire catalog and can build or destroy the career at will.

Tell your friends. Tell your friends’ friends. With this victory, we can finally build enough momentum to force down the price of music through non-compliance. You don’t have to buy music for a price you don’t accept as fair. When everyone’s using allofmp3.com and iTunes is shriveling up to nothing, the Recording Industry will be faced with the decision of either suing even more people, which would further tarnish their outhouse veneer or lower prices in an attempt to compete legitimately. While logic would imply the latter, experience points to the former. However, this could be a veiled positive. If they start suing users who know a better deal when they see it, namely those who pay according to the degree of fidelity and quantity of data not an arbitrary rate, then those aforementioned users and those outraged by the legal action will unite and further push the market in the direction they choose.

The fight is still on, but now there’s a glimmer of hope.

-Nev

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:46:03 +0000

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:41:18 +0000

Wow… this is huge. now watch as AllofMP3.com becomes the biggest mp3 site on the net. The music industry must be going nuts trying to figure out who they have to pay off to get this ruling reversed.. F@#K the RIAA. if they didn’t price cd’s so high to begin with this wouldn’t be such a big problem for them.