• 12-22-2006, 03:10 PM
    AllofMP3.com Under Scrutiny
    From: New York Times, 22 December 2006

    RECORDING COMPANIES SUE RUSSIAN SITE IN U.S. COURT

    Recording companies have filed suit in U.S. Federal District Court in
    Manhattan against a Russan online music service. The lawsuit seeks an
    injunction against AllofMP3.com to prevent it from selling copyrighted
    music without permission and to force it to surrender its domain names.
    The Russian site sells albums for a fraction of the cost of legal music
    sites and offers music from artists who have not authorized online
    sales of their music. The AllofMP3 site claims that it complies with
    Russian copyright law. Russia agreed to rein in Russian Web sites that
    illegally sell copyrighted materials as a condition of joining the
    World Trade Organization, but without evident progress to date. The
    U.S. lawsuit targets Mediaservices, the AllofMP3 site's Moscow-based
    operator, which also runs a music service called allTunes that uses an
    interface similar to that of iTunes.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/te...y/22music.html