RSSAllofMP3: 'Service Will Be Resumed'
By the Betanews Staff | Published August 27, 2007, 1:01 PM
While some may have left it for dead, the owners of AllofMP3 said Monday that they do plan to resume service. "The service will be resumed in the foreseeable future," a blog post from the company read. "We are doing our best at the moment to ensure that all our users can use their accounts, top up balance and order music."
The announcement of the return of AllofMP3 follows a decision by the Russian courts to throw out a case against the former head of Mediaservices (parent company of the site) Denis Kvasov. Although the record industry has vowed to appeal, they might be fighting an uphill battle as the courts have ruled Kvasov can't be sued under current laws.
I'm sad to hear that it's difficult to get royalty money out of ROMS; in so many other ways do I like AllofMP3... But no; I'll sooner pay artists directly than deal with this sort of thing.
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|I'm confused ---- what is "AllTunes"? I thought it was related to AllOfMP3? AllTunes is working perfectly.
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|You are confused. You're the only one who has mentioned alltunes.
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|Alltunes is from the same people as allofmp3. As you most likely know. Since allofmp3.com went down, you could reload your account at mp3sparks.com and it will show up on your alltunes account. Your allofmp3/mp3sparks/alltunes account is all the same.
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|I think this should be addressed by the Russian's music industry and artists if they want to change the Russian law or not, nobody else has anything else to say about it RIAA included. The question will be... would the Record industry stop selling music to Russia? I don't even think they are fighting for the average Prussian musician.... Tip for the RIAA.... make your own www.allofriaa.com and sell the music at the same price or lower you may even make some money... do specials... sell rare to find performances... beat them at their own game...
Who knows I may even buy music from your site... if no spyware included...
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|under the Russian system the artist has no say in whether their music is sold by the service or how much money is charged. If you're going to ignore their rights like that you might as well not give allofmp3 your money and download it for free on p2p.
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|Keir,
The RIAA pretty well ignores the rights of the artist and give them very little especially from digital downloads.
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|Good! Russia needs to use this instead of another arms race to thump the nose of the US for being so arrogant and I think they would gain the respect of most ordinary Americans by slapping the RIAA and record companys upside the head.
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|it is not that Kvasov can't be sued, he can. but what is the point of doing that if he was following the law by the letter?
is russian law flawed? perhaps. but it doesn't matter - it very well might be the absolute worst and unjust one, the point here that it wasn't broken.
should it be changed? again, perhaps. but it is up to russians to change it as it will be them who will have to live with it. it is most sertainly not of any foreigh group of interests busness.
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|Precisely.
I tried to put this into a proper paragraph last time this article was up but failed.
This is exactly how it is.
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|I don't condone the service, as only heaven (and the owner) knows if royalties get to the people who actually make the music - but gosh it feels good to see someone else win for a change. The RIAA in all it's different shape and forms has been mowing people and companies over for so long.
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|exactly.
i don't feel bad one bit about some criminal getting gunned down in south side chicago (not that we had many of these resently) or some drug dealer who got violently robbed. not that i gald that it (hypothetically) happened or killing a criminal was was the right/good thing to do, but it is sertainly not a bad thing i'm going to be upset about.
same here , while it is not nice of allofmp3 to steal money from RIAA i'm not going to feel sorry for them whatsoever
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|Except for the artist that releases their own stuff yet they still show up on their site and indie bands that sell 100-3000 cds have absolutely nothing to do with the RIAA.
Contacting ROMS has been a futile effort as its a game of phone tag and more bs. Since its in another country there's even more barriers.
Emusic does something similar and its legal and they actually pay the artists none of this jerking around bs that allofmp3 does.
The service is bs but the little indie artists are never going to hire a lawyer that is going to take down the corrupt system and ahve to suffer.
So long as the RIAA is behind this it will never get resolved as people deem them as the devil incarnate.
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|"So long as the RIAA is behind this it will never get resolved as people deem them as the devil incarnate."
You mean they aren't? ;)
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|Lol! Score one for the average Joe! It's about time someone put some kind of brakes on the record labels and forced them to use their brains to get customers back instead of using force. Lol!
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|Second the Motion!
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|good!
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|Hehe.
I'm afraid you might get flamed for that in a minute or two.
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