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ustr.gov — The US and Russia have agreed on actions that Russia will take to address piracy, i.e. shutting down AllofMP3.com (on page 2 on top).

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  • amandaw33, on 10/12/2007, -3/+243It was only a matter of time... Great link to the source instead of some random blog!
  • Jak231, on 10/12/2007, -16/+178All your mp3 are belong to US!
  • thebrokenlight, on 10/12/2007, -2/+92AllofMP3.com shut down? Well then, back to pirating music.
  • billflu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+84Maybe "real" online music vendors should remove DRM and lower prices (below $.99/song) This is what made allofmp3.com so popular.
  • Winters, on 10/12/2007, -18/+95Makes me think of fark "having solved all other problems" line.

    Does not the US have better things to do? We are at war after all.
  • CandidateZero, on 10/12/2007, -4/+80It's nice to see the RIAA using national governments as a hatchetman of its own agenda.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+76For me it was the option for higher than 128kb/s songs, not the price.
  • jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -15/+79PDF WARNING!
  • ibeetle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+69Wow... a single website brought the entire World Trade Organization to its knees.
    Something every terrorist in the world could not do. Hear that Al Qaeda. Want to bring the U.S. down? Open up a music download site.
  • drlha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+59Sometimes I think if Osama Bin Laden was running a P2P website on the site to fund Al Quaida, he would have been captured and sued years ago.
  • CasaMan, on 10/12/2007, -11/+64@mttcee/jeromeerome
    AllOfMp3 is a normal company, not some underground site like TPB.
    They can't say "a well, let's pack our things and move to [insert country here]".
    This requires some serious planning for at least some months.

  • ExSlashdotter, on 10/12/2007, -6/+57In soviet russia, the...

    Oh, never mind...
  • Nysul, on 10/12/2007, -2/+48Uhg, now I am going to have to resort to shader ways of getting music. There is no way I am going to:
    1) buy entire CDs for 2-3 decent songs
    2) buy $1 tracks that are low bitrate and have DRM


  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+47Okay then! Back to pirating from Bit Torrent sites. Great job RIAA! You've effectively removed a potential source of your own income.
  • ScornForSega, on 10/12/2007, -11/+52No, no, go ahead.

    "In Soviet Russia, the mp3s DRM you!"
  • Aewheros, on 10/12/2007, -1/+40TPB is not an underground site, they put back new servers at the same racks the old were taken from. They are hosted by a normal webhost.
  • jerickson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40The sad thing is the RIAA probably still doesn't understand that the average customer of AllOfMp3.com was more willing to purchase more music than any other music store because they could get the music in the format THEY want without all that DRM that locks you into a single format/vender.
  • bowels, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34Good. I was tired of swiping pennies from the penny tray at the qwik-mart in order to cover my Allofmp3 bill. Now I will just go back to using free p2p.

  • krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -6/+37what tpb and allofmp3 are doing is totally legal in their countries. allofmp3 was using a legal loophole in their distribution/compensation law. tpb was linking to infringing material, which is not illegal in sweden, even systematically. hell, in sweden, merely in the 1990s, copying for any non-commercial use was fully legal, but some US lobbied swedish politicians changed that law. the RIAA lobbied US politicians to throw some elbows with the WTO to get russia to change the law.

    tpb and allofmp3 arent evil thieves - they're smarter, faster, and better than the *AAs at their own game. both sprung up out of nowhere with little funding, while the *AAs have had countless complete failures. hell, the best things the *AAs have are ITMS and emusic, and tpb/allofmp3 are still vastly superior.
  • BevansDesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29Agreed. I've been using AllofMP3 for a while now, and it's just an all-around great music service.

    Guess I'll be going back to using BitTorrent while I wait for a reasonable way to purchase music.
  • doodlebumm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+301 - Don't buy DRM
    2 - Don't BUY drm
    3 - DON'T buy drm
    4 - DON'T BUY DRM!!!

    Go to your local library and check out the CDs that you like. Listen to them (or whatever else you feel like doing with them). Return them to the library. You already paid for the right to listen to that music by paying your taxes. Fair use says that you have certain rights to that music. Take advantage of it.
  • americamatrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29To be honest,
    I feel more people would buy their music from a site like this, then a site like iTunes.
    I also feel there would be less pirating of music due to the lower prices.

    Why would anyone bother pirating music that
    1) It might be a bad rip
    2) The ID3 Tags might be messed up
    3) It might be the totally wrong song/album you were looking for.

    Granted yes it is free, but if you use a site like this, you know the the rip will be done well, the ID3 tags/song/album will be correct.

    This site wasn't illegal. It is only illegal in the eyes of the RIAA. This site was about having fair prices for music that we enjoy listening to.

    I wish the US would smarten up and have a system like this. They would make a lot more bank (due to more people buying music, because of the lower prices), and there would definitely be a decline in the amount of music pirated.

    Not to mention, I hate corporations telling me where and how I can listen to music that I BUY. . .

    Perhaps this what the music industry here needs? A site like this?

    Gonna miss Allofmp3...Sad to see a good idea go. . .
  • 955701, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31@casaman

    Planning they are almost certain to have started over a year ago while being threatened by authorities. Either than or even worse: They'll eject their entire music library onto said offshore server as a massive middle finger to the RIAA & others.

    Can you imagine *their* library as a torrent feed and on the peer to peer networks?
  • Omega697, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32There is a difference between "illegal" and "against the will of the copyright holders." You should learn the difference.
  • sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31You actually have to reverse something to make that work, Forrest.
  • drlha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26You don't think an attack on the World Trade Center was an attack on our economy? Plus look how much money the US is throwing away because of 9/11. They're attacking our economy all right.
  • sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -13/+37"The allofmp3.com staff have been summarily poised and their servers removed," Putin said, "We're unsure of how but look forward to better relations with our DRM overlords."
  • jcapogna, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24But with allofmp3 out of the way, they can still charge high prices for content that you don't really own.
  • ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Never used them, but here are some clones:
    www.mp3search.ru
    www.mp3sugar.com
  • paperhat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Convenience and a large catalog was the key for allofmp3. If somebody wanted a 256 or higher mp3 of an album that wasn't currently on billboard, it was much easier to find it on allofmp3 than torrent.
  • soapboy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+27"In United States, you shut down US companies. In Soviet Russia, United States shuts down YOU!"
  • GravyTrain6, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25I hope everyone else can appreciate the humor in that line.
  • davebushe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23www.emusic.com
  • JimV, on 10/12/2007, -14/+33I truly despise the sentence "Doesn't the US government have better things to do? We ARE at war." As if the US government should stop functioning and every department put on hold because there's fighting going on in Iraq. The DoD and Pentagon aren't putting things on hold in Iraq to go after copyright violators in Russia. It's not their job. There are other departments in the govt that do that. And those other departments have no affect on what happens in Iraq, Afghanistan, or any other country we are at conflict with. Should the govt stop paying student financial aid, paying social security, collecting taxes, etc because we're at war?

    I didn't think so.
  • dashiel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19if the moronic, music industry, moguls understood that music is now a commodity item and not a special or prized object like it was 15-20 years ago, they would adopt the allofmp3 business model immediately.

    kids today have so many more options on where to spend their money, video games, movies, dvds, ipods, ring tones, etc... that the value proposition of an $18 CD just isn't enough.

    anecdotally, i know of many people who regularly spend $50 and more a month at allofmp3, but haven't spent $50 this year on CDs or iTunes. it's not that they don't have the money, it's the cost associated with music is too high. i know, complaining about the price of something doesn't mean it should be cheaper, but if the record companies are faced with a $50 a year or $500 a year proposition even if it means selling 5000 songs instead of 50, doesn't that makes sense, economically?

    selling things cheap enough would pretty much eliminate piracy too. why would i bother with bit-torrent to download X song, when i can get it for 15-cents. sure some piracy would still exist, but you're never going to get rid of it.
  • dancurranjr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19I already have Limewire fired back up. Sad, because I spent a LOT of money at AllOfMp3.com -- anyone know of another DECENT pay for music site?
  • cwestpha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17NOOOOOOO!
    AllofMP3.com was the way how purchesses should have been. You get to chose the format, bitrate, and you get a flat charge based on the size of the file sent to you. I bought tons of songs off of that service because it was so flexible. I would gladly pay 50 cents or more for a 5 min song in an MP3 @ 192 kbps. it was the best.
  • garreh, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20@CasaMan and if they were smart, they would have already been planning such a move for months by now, as this has been going on for a while.

    And if the TPB can do it, I have no doubt allofmp3 CAN do it. It's if they will or not. I think not, though. :)
  • brbubba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I forgot, because buying music in retail or at the apple store actually goes to support artists. If you want to support an artist you like, go to their concert.
  • jihadjohnson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18This is just more proof that the RIAA owns the American Goverment (or a large part of it)
  • o2o2o2o2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15 ...............:::::::: IN OTHER NEWS :::::::.............

    Iran welcomes allofmp3.com to setup servers in their country. In a statement released by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, he states:

    "We have nothing to loose by helping allofmp3.com and everything to gain. We welcome new business. The USA hates us already and I would also like to see the president Bush's face when he hears we are partnering with people who pirate american music such as that dirty little Britney Spears"
  • BevansDesign, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Dugg down for use of "M$".

    Oh, and everything else that's stupid about your post.
  • drowningfish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14/smirks

    Here's to the next allofmp3.com clone in some other Country. . .cheers and good-luck
  • shodson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Sealand

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand
  • nogoodreason, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I think I speak for more than a few people here when I say:

    "Ah well. Back to Limewire."

    Give me a legal site that offers choose-your-own-bitrate, un-DRM'd mp3 files at reasonable prices and I'll be the first to sign up. But as the RIAA have no qualms about using the US Government as their own personal attack dog I somehow doubt we'll be seeing one anytime soon.

    R.I.P Good Music.
  • RubberbandLN6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13It actually doesn't say that allofmp3 will be shut down, it's just "they agreed on the objective of shutting down websites that permit illegal distribution" and they will take enforcement actions, but who actually knows when that is going to happen. It could be days or it could be years, who knows? I really doubt this is the last of allofmp3 anyways, they are bound to find more loopholes.
  • doodlebumm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12@dpchi

    The RIAA and Labels don't give the artists any money either. Which pirates are worse? The ones that *legally* make 20 times as much as the ones that aren't "legalized"? Besides, Allofmp3 sends that required money to the Russian government (kind of like not paying the IRS. but it's Russian!). It's the Russian government that doesn't send it on to the copyright holder (who is not the artist in MOST ALL cases).
  • JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I believe I can summarize the digg community's emotions:

    *****.
  • drlha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14The first rule of USENET is:

    (guess)
  • dareiff, on 10/12/2007, -9/+20Didn't have a problem at all with adobe, btw.
    And damn. Allofmp3 was almost legit. And by almost I mean I felt better about spending about 40 bucks there...
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