true, i believe all artist should be fully compensated from cd sales. however, the record companies take a big chunk of the money they make from the cds and if the bands need money, the record companies give the bands a tab and lots of times the band ends up in owing money they don't have. this has been going on for years b4 the invention of p2p or bootlegging a cd.

I love corperations....HAIL HAIL MP3 fuhrer HAIL!
the 3rd riaa(pronocused ria/rye) shall conquer the world hail!
*rolls eyes*

Zieg Heil!!

**kneels at the feet of Da Fuhrer and kisses his ring...while waiting for his new CD purchase to finish downloading from Allof...**

;-)

they have no right to say this becuase thye follow russian law they are not based in the u.s and even if this suite goes through the courts here in the u.s.a will most likley say try this case in russia and the RIAA will not because they know they will lose

If I was in charge at AllofMP3 I wouldnt even send a lawyer to New York. The lawsuit is a joke. You cant sue a Russian company in New York because even if you win, nothing can be inforced. What is going to happen, make the ISPs block the website? That would be so easy to get around it would be the joke of this site and all similar sites.

The giant Marketing arm of the RIAA that exists to protect the oligopoly of the largest Record Companies by stealing from artists, actively price fixing by illegally removing competition from the market place and and having all of their represented Record Companies not compete with each other and forcing stores NOT to tell any of their 80% of the music at non-discounted prices.

What is so sick about the article above is that it is lazy reporting, where only a memo sent by the RIAA is noted.

<b>WHO SAIDTHAT THE ARTISTS ARE NOT BE PAID FOR SALES ON ALLofMP3 WHAT DOES ROMS DO WITH THE MONEY ? </b>

<b>What the RIAA hates about ROMS is that Russian law is way more respectful to the artists. ROMS is oriented on playing artists DIRECTLY !! Not record Companies !!<b>

AfterDawn, do some research about ROMS and how the money is distributed.

I encourage all to use AllofMP3. It is how it should be for online sales. What is so great is that there are NO subscriptions fees, you pay as you go. But the BEST is that it is the customers choice on THE FORMAT/QUALITY OF THE AUDIO FILE. They have about every audio format you can choose fromand not only that,

It does a GREAT job of allowing the customer to preview the the music before buying. I love that I can choose my format. I am not stuck with mediocre, DRM infected garbage or mediocre Windows formats. I CHOOSE.

It must be understood that the RIAA are the bas guys here and AllOFMP3 are the good guys. They are the ones whose system is designed around customer demand and paying ARTISTS, not getting billion dollar oligopolies steal more from Artists and you and I.

And while we're talking about Allof let us not forget..

The cost of a Zune music store unlimited listening subscription: $13

The cost of a Yahoo Music unlimited listening subscription: $9

The cost of an Allofmp3.com unlimited listening subscription: FREE

The cost of watching the RIAA turn red over this fact: PRICELESS

And for everything else there is NOT Mastercard or Visa since they BOTH gave in to become the 'moral' police for the RIAA and no longer allow transfers to Allof.

SERIOUSLY guys, you can listen to all the music you want to, whenever you want to, whatever you want to FOR FREE courtesy of Allofmp3.com and their streaming music service!

There will always be alternatives, even if AllTunes (the last bit of AllOfMP3 to still be around) closes down too: there is a huge list of sites similar to AllOfMP3 at www.songboom.com that explains the differences between them all with a side-by-side comparison. Although it was sad to see AllOfMP3 go, it's certainly not the end of cheap music!