RIAA sues AllofMP3 for $1.65 trillion - um, what!?
Jan 2, 2007 Current Events, Internet, Music
I have reported before on how dumb all of this RIAA crap is, but this is the icing on the cake. I do not currently buy music from Allofmp3.com, but I do believe that they are not violating any laws. From the article:
As part of their claim, the labels are seeking $150,000 USD for each of the 11 million songs that were downloaded from June to October 2006 from the AllofMP3.com website.Now how much money the site has made is unknown but, certainly its profits are not in the trillions of dollars.”AllofMP3 understands that several U.S. record label companies filed a lawsuit against Media Services in New York,” an unnamed “senior company official” stated. “This suit is unjustified as AllofMP3 does not operate in New York. Certainly the labels are free to file any suit they wish, despite knowing full well that AllofMP3 operates legally in Russia. In the mean time, AllofMP3 plans to continue to operate legally and comply with all Russian laws.”
…technically AllOfMP3 does obey the law-Russian law. It pays the standard 15% Russian licensing fee that applies to online music to ROM, the Russian Organization for Multimedia & digital systems. ROM is the Russian equivalent of the RIAA, and according to their website they are “…the national Russian organization providing professional collective management of authors’ property rights and protection of interests of rights holders in cases of use of their works in digital interactive networks, including the Internet.” But, unfortunately for AllOfMP3 the RIAA doesn’t recognize ROM’s legitimacy, perhaps out of fear that it would help legitimize AllOfMP3 and erode their position against it.
Please, RIAA. Remove your head from your butts and see how absolutely ludicrous this is!
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