RSSRecord Industry Will Appeal AllofMP3 Ruling
By the Betanews Staff | Published August 17, 2007, 1:28 PM
Stinging from its loss in the Russian courts, prosecutors and the recording industry pledged to appeal the dismissal of a case against former Allofmp3 and Mediaservices head Denis Kvasov. According to a spokesperson for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the plaintiffs have one week to file their appeal.
A Russian District Court judge found that the prosecution did not have sufficient evidence to back up their charges and threw the case out earlier this week. The IFPI has not elaborated on what their basis for an appeal would be, however it continued to stress that AllofMP3 operated "in clear violation of copyright law."
It would be nice to see the Russian Government charge RIAA members with attempting to undermined the Government of the Russian Federation, counts of negligence, fraud and misrepresentation, racketeering and corruption, abuse of the legal process, malicious prosecution, outrage and intention to inflict emotional distress, computer fraud and abuse, trespass, invasion of privacy, libel and slander, deceptive business practices, misuse of copyright laws, and civil conspiracy.
Then sentence them to death in abstention at their trial.
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|Ageed need to have a barbaque.
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|The record industry doesn’t feel pain; they don’t feel remorse, and they absolutely will not stop until you are dead.
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|you got that right. THAT is where your money goes to any more when you buy something. Not to the artists. ney. something far far less worthy, It goes to the endless supply of lawyers on frivolous lawsuits and threats into settlement extortion fees. And then when they loose, which has happened often in fact, they appeal and appeal and appeal till the other party can not afford to defend themselves any longer and give to the intimidation. OR they appeal and appeal till a ignorant judge decides he is smarter then 5 other judges prior... and then the RIAA MPAA react like it is the word of God on high and they use that win (after several losses) to justify further cycles of this crapenomics. So don't buy anything from studios within the MPAA RIAA... Send the artists a message. Want paid? Get rid of your fan harassing representatives and get on a more consumer friendly option. Put a leash on these dogs now, before you have no fans left at all.
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|Or broke!
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|adklkslldlfkld
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|Exactly! Well said.
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|Seems it was legal in Russia for allomp3 to operate under their laws its futile for the industry to cry and stamp their feet over this as American law does not apply in Russia, just like Americans cannot be punished for war crimes as America refuses to adopt the Nuremberg Principles on human rights.
Because western companies refuse to collect royalties from Russian Organization for Multimedia & Digital Systems(ROMS) so they can continue to price fix around the world does not make allofmp3 ilegal.
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|so will all the poor people in Bangladesh get something to eat tonight?
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|What wonderful leap of logic brought the poor of Bangladesh into this topic, I wonder...
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|Maybe it's time to land that Airplane of yours, the lack of oxygen to your brain is clearly having a negative impact.
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|to be basic I dont really give ratz arse that the Americans cannot be punished for war crimes as America refuses to adopt the Nuremberg Principles on human rights.
What does that have to do with Russia selling music in Russia?
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|What about China selling piriate disk to the US?
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|one word, hypocrisy.
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|All you need to stop that is to prove that the pirated CDs/DVDs have lethal amounts of lead. :P
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|*yawn*
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|zzzzzzz
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|Ouch, the stupid, it burns!
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|pull up!!!
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|Uh, dude seriously you made a page about someone on a forum, you must really have a sad pathetic life.
Just kiss him already man, its not right to be swinging on his nuts and giving him no love.
Allofmp3 sells music of an artist for $1.35 (an entire cd) as long as the music is available for release somewhere in the world they state they have the right to sell it nevermind that the artist never game permission or has any distribution in Russia whatsoever. How is that legal? I can see if these artists were in russia on russian labels it would be legal then as its within their country but taking american artists who have never sold a cd in russia and sells maybe 500 cds with no label. How is that legal? ROMS doesn't cover that which leaves them open for debate.
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|In the city of York, it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow.
How is that legal?
It's the law; that's how it's legal (got to love UK law).
It's the law in Russia that allofmp3 can do it, therefore it is legal in Russia.
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|And American doesnt have stupid laws ?
The above law had relevance at one point, and it has never been revolked ... WOW Shock horror.
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|It'd be funny if it wasn't so terribly pathetic...
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|*laughs*
I see what you did there...
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|I was giving an example (as I live in the UK, UK law is easiest for me to talk about).
My point was it is law, and that is that.
Allofmp3 is legal in Russia because that is how their law is set up. Fact.
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|...was set up. Putin caved.
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