Anyone ever use this site -- www.allofmp3.com ? One of my buddies in Scotland uses it and says it's mega cheap!

Been a staple of my music life for two years. Used to be $0.01 a MB... went to $0.02 a few months ago... still a great site with good quality and a surprising collection.

2005-01-25
allofmp3.com legal in Russia?
From the WSJ:

[allofmp3] obtains the music it sells by purchasing CDs in retail stores, he said, and receives some albums directly from record labels. He said the site pays licensing fees for the music it sells to a group called the Russian Organization for Multimedia & Digital Systems, or ROMS, which purports to represent Russian copyright holders. MP3search.ru and 3MP3.ru also say on their Web sites that they are licensed by ROMS.

Konstantin Leontiev, deputy director general for legal issues of ROMS, said in an e-mail statement that the group acts "in conformity with the requirements of the Russian laws." He said that the group's activities only cover users inside Russia, and said users outside Russia should consult local laws.
Evan Cox, an intellectual property lawyer at the firm Covington & Burling in San Francisco has a similar view: "It doesn't matter if somebody downloads in the U.S. and believes that it's legal because the site tells them so." Id.

So it appears that allofmp3.com is legal in Russia, but not the U.S., according to Mr. Cox anyway.

http://techlawadvisor.com/2005/01/allof ... ussia.html


you might as well use soulseek or a torrent site?

Whoa! Darrin is REALLY a Russian?

There's several Russian download sites that you can get full releases for just a few cents to at most a dollar or so. But I always was wary of sending credit card info to Russia.

You can go through several payer routes, including paypal, which doesnt involve sending #'s to Russia.

There is a lot of debate on this. It will ultimately come down to an import/export issue, I believe. Is it illegal to import material from another country when the exporter holds a legal license to distribute such material in that country? I dont know. I dont see much end-user liability here, although the Russian government may bow to some external pressure and force the site shut down. The most recent site of this kind to be shut down actually had servers in the US, which is why. This could be a huge case for the future of the RIAA, so I would be surprised if they force the issue. Losing this battle could hinder their progress towards $20 CD's and full DRM's on all music everywhere...maybe they would just let it be.

Just my $0.02