The bane of the international music industry - Russia's pirate music site, AllofMP3.com has finally been closed by the Russian Government - but a new site has sprung up to take its place.
AllofMP3.com has been trading for a number of years by flagrantly selling cheap unlicensed albums from major international record labels, although the site claimed that it was legal under Russian law, it was clear that the site had no license agreements with record labels. Over the past year the site had become the focus of Russia's failure to deal with its endemic intellectual property piracy problems - the US had used the site's existence to threaten Russia's membership to the World Trade Organization.
But when it comes to the AllofMP3 saga, it would appear that it's gone but not forgotten. Shortly after closing down AllofMP3.com, the ''brains' behind AllofMP3 launched a sister site - http://www.mp3sparks.com, which featured the same interface, downloads and graphics as the original site.
However, it seems that perhaps the Russian authorities decided to act a little faster this time because shortly after its launch, MP3Sparks also appeared to go offline. Of course I wouldn't hold my breath on it staying that way.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-04-2007 @ 7:46PM
Mark said...
Oh no I have a "friend" that had an account with all of MP3 with some money left in it. I wonder what will happen to that cash?
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7-04-2007 @ 10:59PM
Michael said...
I'd be more worried about your friend's credit card information.
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7-05-2007 @ 12:02AM
Timon said...
How come nobody has ever told me about this site? And now when I hear of such a site, it goes off before I get a chance to enjoy it.
That's just not fair.
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7-05-2007 @ 2:05AM
Jeff said...
I had an account with this site, but have not used it in a while. I spent more money here than I ever would on itunes because the quality is better and it's actually cheaper than buying the cd. No other store can give me the music I want, at the price I want. I guess I'll just have to go back to pirating the cd's I can't buy in canada.
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7-05-2007 @ 5:51AM
CJ said...
I can understand the music industry going after these guys. Why do they try and put legit retailers out of business. They tried to put one of of business last month in the UK. I buy all my cds from sites like www.bangcd.com for nada
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8-05-2007 @ 4:45PM
mp3sparks said...
Since Allofmp3 has been shut down by russian authorities, it's time to take a look around and see where else legal mp3s can be purchased at a fair price.For the people who want to find other services like allofmp3, here are the top 10 allofmp3 alternatives http://hubpages.com/hub/russianmp3site...
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