All of over for AllofMP3.com (or is it ... ?)

Five great things about this story of the apparent closure of AllofMP3.com:

• a reminder of the possibility to make a fortune under a truly awful brand name (I refer you to my previous post on the subject);
• the whiff of espionage and reported involvement of the Kremlin;
• the reference in this post by Criticulture to the business run from the old AllofMP3.com being "dubiously-legal" ("your honour, I put it to you that my client's business was in fact legal - though admittedly only dubiously so ...");
• the apparent success of international pressure in bringing about the closure of a "dubiously-legal" web-business in a jurisdiction that has previously appeared to tolerate it - though note this from John Kennedy, head of international music industry association IFPI:

"Russia remains a huge source of internet piracy. We would now like to see decisive action taken against similar copyright-infringing sites to show that the Russian authorities are indeed seriously committed to enforcing intellectual property rights";

• the (for the record industries rather frustrating) fact that the story continues - AllofMP3 appears to have upped and re-sited itself at the more snappily-entitled MP3Sparks.com (which is still dubiously-legal, no doubt).

Comments

[alex]

Allofmp3 was best, because has no drm and real time encoding - from 192 to 320 kbps I liked "him". But russian mp3 stores it is whole world, about existense you don't know, i write wide articles about 20 sites like allofmp3 at http://hubpages.com/hub/russianmp3site...