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Monday, 07 March 2005 |
Moscow
prosecutor lets low-cost MP3 site off the hook
Register - London,England,UK
Russian prosecutors have decided they are unable to take legal action against
controversial online music provider Allofmp3.com - despite the music service's
lack of sufficient licences to offer the content it does.
Last week, the Moscow Southwest regional prosecutor's office said no criminal
indictment could be brought against the music seller because it has not violated
Russia's copyright law, a local blogger has reported.
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Yes, AllofMP3.com offers copyright music. No, it does not always have the prior
permission of the copyright holder to do so. But Russian law was written to
prevent CD and DVD piracy - copyright infringement through a physical medium.
Its online manifestation was not something taken into account by legislators.
AllofMP3.com has won the support of many music buyers by offering songs very,
very cheaply. It charges not on a per-track basis, as other services do, but on
a per-megabyte scheme. Tracks are available in a broad array of formats, from
AIFF to MP3, AAC, Ogg, WMA etc, encoded on the fly at any bitrate the user
chooses. The higher the level of compression, the lower the audio quality, but
ipso facto, the more you can download for the same amount of money.
And silly amounts of money at that: $5 for 500MB of music.
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