James Delahunty
9 Jul 2005 16:37
If there's one site that sells music downloads that has really gotten on the nerves of the major music labels, it is allofmp3.com. The site - based in Russia charges users for their download by amount of data that is downloaded, generally 2 cents per MB. In February this year, the site came under criminal investigation in Russia for copyright violations but later on, in March, it emerged that allofmp3.com wasn't breaking any current Russian laws.
The IFPI swore that it would not give up and it didn't. A Court in Munich has now prohibited allofmp3 from making copyrighted data publicly available within Germany. In the same press release that brought this news, the music industry also stated said it's going to take action against sites that support allofmp3, or similar sites, with advertisement or links.
The IFPI claims that the Russian site is illegally distributing its members' music. "We have consistently said that AllofMP3.com is not licensed to distribute our members' repertoire in Russia or anywhere else," said <>Igor Pozhitkov, regional director of IFPI Moscow.
Source:
p2pnet