AllofMP3.com is one of the top ‘legal’ download music services in the United Kingdom. AllofMP3 is a semi-legal Russian mp3-download service. They operate with no agreement from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) or any other lobbying group representing the major music labels.
Russian laws do not actually apply to digital media, currently they only affect physical media. The RIAA attempted to shut down AllofMP3, but that resulted in no response from Russian prosecutors.
It is currently unknown wether or not AllofMP3 pays artists or record labels, but chances are good they are not. The German government declared AllofMP3 an illegal website, because they have no agreement with copyright holders.
Sites like AllofMP3 and MP3Search (a similar Russian service) pose a great threat to the RIAA-controlled sites like iTunes and Napster. Currently the RIAA wants to raise prices of songs on iTunes from 99 cents, which some say is absolutely ridiculous.
Russian music charges only about 10% of non-DRM protected music, in many cases you can purchase a full music album, in digital format, for under $2. The new Pink album is selling for only $1.63, while on iTunes it sells for no less than $9.99.
Not only are prices betters with services like AllofMP3 than iTunes, but all songs can be purchased in various formats, ranging from WAV-rips (highest quailty), to MP3 (typical P2P quailty) and in formats like OGG, which is considered a high-quality compression, much better than MP3.
Users are really getting more ‘bang-for-the-buck’ by purchasing from the Russian music services. Better prices and ability to do what they wish with their paid-for music. And at this point, it appears, the RIAA cannot do a single thing to stop it.
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I even got more bang for the buck. Been using it for a few years now. I paid one time at the beginning ten dollars. Credit card. My card never got charged any other time even though some of the zeropaid users said it was a scandle or they will charge your card again and crap. Then i downloaded an app from their site. I was uploading wav files and flac albums that they didnt have on their site. I got twice as much upload credit per megabyte. So i could download 192variable or 220lame and get even more value. I liked it since i could get alot of singles/european and remixes. Different stuff i couldnt find elsewhere. I uploaded around 300.00 of stuff and have 9.89 in credit still left. You can change the file extension before downloading so no one sees that your downloading music. No DRM what so ever. IF you did pay service. This be the one to get.
I agree i have used this service several times in the past to test claims of fraud but nothing EVER happened. But then again im sure my membership is just a drop in the bucket.
I tried it too and was happy.
Its realy good and should become legal….
Why would you bother paying for music to download if it wasnt legal anyways? Thats like paying a guy for the priveledge to rob a 7-11. You might as well use just break out your favorite P2P application and downlaod it yourself minus the middleman.
I was just thinking the same thing Soulxtc.
However it is also good to show the RIAA BPI CRIAA IFPI etc. that even if there is a free alternitive people will pay for media thats reasonably piced and not locked down with that fair use sodomy known as DRM.
Working against the recording industry is hard work. Funding helps alot to fund things like copy protection ignoring CD rippers and burners and other hardware and also to give people more time defending against the army of lawyers condemning them into the same category as Stalin and Usama and stuff. Money can also pay for positive media coverage film equipment time and trouble and distribution. I can understand paying $10 for that and not to mention getting a fat pipeline for downloading. Of course not everyone can pay for their information but those who can I don’t hold any disrespect for because they’re funding the champions of freedom however corrupt those champions of freedom may be.
i have a very good response to the question “Why would you bother paying for music to download if it wasnt legal anyways?”
I use this service because I am willing to buy music at a reasonable price. What I am not willing to do is pay $15+ for a CD. If the recording industry would lower price to $5 or under I bet you music sales would go up and p2p usage would go down. If the RIAA sees many people are willing to pay for music instead of stealing it perhaps they will lower prices. I would much rather buy a CD then download a low quality mp3.
Download a low quality mp3? Where you getting your stuff from? OINK accepts nothing less than 192 with everything usually in the 256 to 520 KB/S range.
Teto makes a decent point about the money going to support the operations but I have a feeling that these guys are cruisin around in Mazaratis after they pay off the Russian mob I mean come on now a Russian lawyer and Russian media are oxymorons. I’d like to see who would listen to them in Russia.
I just cant belive somebody would pay cold cash to break the law anyways. I mean I could set up a service where I charge you a dime a tune but that dont make it any more legal for either of us.
Considering that it is LEGAL in Russia where the service is offered it is technically a legal service despite that USA and other governments outlaw their activity.
How’’s it legal to use somebody else’s stuff without their permission? They dont have any copyright laws? If that’s the case maybe I should just grab my buddy’s hard drive and move to Russia as with his 180 GB of tunes he could make a killing……….dont know about that “snow” stuff there though Diego has made me lose my immunity to bad weather.
Maybe it iIS legal that may be so but pot’s legal in Amsterdam but that doesnt mean I can have it shipped to my house in Cali………as long as it’s illegal where you’re two feet touch mother earth that’s all that matters to the “man.”
I get much more bang for the buck. I simply download for FREE
Seriously anyone who buys from itunes is a dumb ass.
you people are missing the point about the service. if the RIAA sees people are willing to pay for the songs rather then steal them prices may change. looks lets face it most file sharing is illegal according to US and EU laws. in general its pretty fucked up to steal. so unless any of you can think of a better idea to show the RIAA people are willing to buy rather then steal im going to keep paying my 10-15 cents per song. i am sure we can all agree it would be better for everyone to put these lawsuits and copyright issues to rest before the laws get really out of hand.
Well considering that iTunes has been out there for what 3-4 yeras now and the RIAA still doesnt give a dam despite the huge number of sales what WILL it take for the RIAA to get the picture?
Tnres a ton of other services out there also like Napster and others and the RIAA could care less it seems. They want to have their cake and eat it too and to tell you the truth I think somewhere in the RIAA anarchy is a couple of big shot power brokers who pray morning and night that the internet will just go away and they can sell albums like thye used too 20 stinkin bucks and where they control it all. What a pipe dream. Why else would they be so stubborn in embracing the new age to this very day?
Its been 7 years since Mr. Fanning changed the way we all get music and the RIAA is still doing the same old shit. Another Russian music service isnt gonna change anything if anything it’ll just piss em’ off that people can sell their stuff “legally” at whatever price they choose. WHy $1.63? F – it charge $1.00 get your name out there and really make a killing.
I really wish I lived in Russia with my all my friends songs 160GB I’d make a frickin killing sell em each at like 20 cents a song a buck an album. I wonder if I have to pay taxes or what is it just Russian mob payoffs? Anybody know?………………….
soulxtc– it isn’t about where your feet touch mother-earth music is not property the way the riaa thinks it is or you for that matter.
If I am a carpenter and I build steps for a living and I build some steps one day should every following day for the next 50 years (current copyright life on music) I be able to ‘tax’ (or collect royalties) on every person that walks up and down those steps?! Of course not! As a carpenter I need to continue to create more steps to sell to people not attempt to charge everyone for walking up and down the steps! I would practically be a thief!
If I am a ‘musician’ (or much worse.. a record label) and I perform a song why should I never ever HAVE to perform the song again and make money off of EVERY person that LISTENS to my music?!
Now that sounds like a dream come true. You do something once and collect on it the rest of your life. Now that is fucked up. See pirates’ views are not fucked up. Why should we pay to SEE or to HEAR something? It makes no fucking sense.
If a musician wants to make fucking money they can get off their ass and go perform that is what the job calls for.
If a truck driver drives a route and comes home he isn’t going to keep getting paid for the one route he did drive he needs to do it again right? Well fucking artists need to learn to do the same thing.
And you know what? A LOT of them DO like Phish Moe The Dead Dave Matthews etc. tour CONSTANTLY and bring in money and it just so happens they have little problem with people downloading music. Go fucking figure that the people who DO are Britney Spears Eminem and Madonna… people with lesser talent to begin with.
anyway point is in any part of the job market besides media people need to do something to get paid. it’s a fucking fantasy to do something once and live off it the rest of your life it’s almost like winning the lottery.
besides have we all so quickly forgotten the simple fact that the music in question in ripped format is WAV format? and the RIAA has repeatedly asserted that mp3s are no equivalent match to CDs (WAVs). Hmm now why is that? Because data of the music has been removed compressed and modified. The “if it walks like a duck” mentality everyone has about mp3s is fucking ridiculous.