The Pseudo-death knell of AllofMP3
Published by Siddiq Bello July 3rd, 2007 in AllOfMP3, Digital Music, Digital downloading, Groups Opposing the RIAA, IFPI, RIAA, RIAA and Record Labels, Start-ups, copyright, mp3, russian mp3.
It seems that after months of slow economic starvation AllofMP3.com is finally no more. Over the last few years the IFPI and RIAA have mounted a sustained assault on the site, which followed the letter of Russian law, but sold music in a format (MP3) and for a price (cheap as hell) that the dying recording industry disliked. For the music industry this was a long, hard fight and their victory would be a whole lot sweeter if AllofMP3.com hadn’t already reopened under a different name. The new site called Mp3sparks, has all of the features and functionality you loved in Allofmp3.com. Your old Allofmp3.com username and password are supposed to work on Mp3sparks.com although it hasnt for me. Credit cards are still not accepted on the site but its unclear if thats due to the old credit card monopoly ban on ALLofMP3 or a simple technical glitch. Hopefully, MP3Sparks can fill the gap left by the hobbling (and now full closure of ALLofMP3.com) but until it gets credit card payments up I dont recommend you let your BitTorrent ratio’s slide.
mp3sparks will be followed by mp3sharks, mp3 farks and so on. Russian people are very tough to be easily defeated. That’s why allofmp3 won’t give up. As for me - I can’t understand the policy of those dozens of russian sites which give the opportunity to download music for free.
AllOfMp3 Llegal project in russian but does’t in US and Europe…
So… think about it…