Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Russian Pirate Music Site to Re-Open
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 10:00 PM
"Russian music download site www.allofmp3.com has said it will resume business soon, after a Moscow court ruled its operation is in accordance with Russian law. No music is currently on sale, but a statement on the Web site says business will begin shortly, with enhanced payment procedures and a larger selection of music. The statement was dated August 31, but did not make clear whether that was when the site would resume business. Earlier this month the Cheryomushki Court in Moscow ruled that Denis Kvasov, allofmp3's former head, was not guilty of intellectual property theft, and had not violated Russian copyright laws."
The Motherland of Russia has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons lately - and this is just another bad example. The thing that irritates me about AllofMP3.com is the way they pretend to be ethical and legal - even if what they're doing is legal under Russian law, there's certainly nothing ethical about it. In the same vein, I have more respect for someone who openly admits that he's stealing music because he doesn't want to pay for it than I do for someone that insists that buying music from AllofMP3.com is somehow supporting the artists that make the music.
That's just not the way it works, despite AllofMP3.com's claims that they want to pay the music companies their "royalties". That's like me robbing your house then offering to give you your own DVD player back as your "cut" from the robbery. What AllofMP3.com is doing is no different.
The Motherland of Russia has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons lately - and this is just another bad example. The thing that irritates me about AllofMP3.com is the way they pretend to be ethical and legal - even if what they're doing is legal under Russian law, there's certainly nothing ethical about it. In the same vein, I have more respect for someone who openly admits that he's stealing music because he doesn't want to pay for it than I do for someone that insists that buying music from AllofMP3.com is somehow supporting the artists that make the music.
That's just not the way it works, despite AllofMP3.com's claims that they want to pay the music companies their "royalties". That's like me robbing your house then offering to give you your own DVD player back as your "cut" from the robbery. What AllofMP3.com is doing is no different.
