Idolator

YAY! Justice is served!

Local laws should override any bullshit "international" laws made by the USA in conjunction with greedy corporations who only have their own monetary interests at heart.

In non-Soviet Russia, the law breaks you?

I'd hardly call this justice. Unless you count me, a very independent artist, one of those greedy corporations who only have their own monetary interests at heart.

Yeah, allofmp3 once sold my band's stuff, as well the stuff of a lot of indie artists who I counted as friends. They made their reputation selling indie stuff and probably could've skated by under the RIAA's radar if they'd continued to just sell our stuff, rather than grabbing major-label stuff. Of course, they sold our stuff without the courtesy of asking, they also sold it without actually paying us a share of the profits - because they knew they could get away with it. How many indie bands are going to have the resources to hire a lawyer familiar with russian law, who can deal with ROMS?

(Oh, and for a while they were also selling a CD of ours that was released free on the internet as mp3 files. Caveat emptor there, especially if you bought the "high-quality wav files...")

So while they were great at sticking it to the RIAA, of which I approve, they were also really quite good at sticking it to artists who were laboring out of their basements and garages. Of that, I do not approve.

What I would love to see is a cheap pay-to-download service that doesn't have to resort to legal grey areas to do it, and that doesn't screw over the artists themselves. The RIAA has made it impossible for the most part, and AllOfMp3 has damaged the credibility of anyone who wants to try something different. This is just lose-lose all around.