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Wednesday, 23 February 2005 |
Cheapo
MP3 site investigated
Silicon.com - UK
A Russian digital-music site offering high-quality song downloads for just
pennies apiece is the target of a criminal copyright investigation by the local
police, recording industry groups said on Tuesday.
AllofMP3.com has been operating for several years, asking consumers to pay just
two cents per megabyte of downloads - usually between four cents and 10 cents
per song. Alongside the catalogue available at traditional stores like Apple's
iTunes, the site offered access to songs from the Beatles and other groups that
haven't yet authorised digital distribution.
The Russian site claimed it had licences to do so from a local clearing house,
but record labels have maintained that the licences weren't valid. After
long-standing complaints, the Moscow City Police Computer Crimes division
completed an investigation earlier this month and recommended that prosecutors
charge the site's operators with criminal copyright infringement.
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