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Pirated Russian MP3 sites to face a trial · 2006-12-21 16:35
A group of American record firms has started legal action against Russian music download site Allofmp3.com, BBC. The lawsuit was filed in New York on behalf of Arista Records, Warner Bros, Capitol and UMG recordings.
They are suing Moscow-based Mediaservices, which runs Allofmp3.com and allTunes.com, which sell songs without permission.
Allofmp3.com sells albums for about $1, whereas the world’s most popular music download service iTunes, charges $10 for an album.
Vadim Mamotin of AllofMP3.com the site follows Russian copyright laws. “There’s absolutely no legal basis for the campaign against AllofMP3,” Mamotin said.
While the site claims to be operating legally, the recording industry and the federal government disagree.
“It’s black and white under Russian law. It’s black and white under U.S. law. It is an illegal site. It’s iTunes, only it’s an illegal version of it,” Newhousenews quoted Neil Turkewitz, executive vice president of the Recording Industry Association of America.
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