RIAA sues AllOfMp3.com

MattVortex · **Posted:** December 24th, 2006, 11:19 am

Allofmp3 is a russian business that sells music without paying many royalties at all, and has been very controversial. According to russian law, however, they are completely legal... just not US law.

The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) have decided to sue allofmp3 for the maximum they possibly can, for all the songs downloaded from their site between June and October this year.

'Maximum Possible' = $150,000 per song.
'All the songs downloaded' = 11 million.

Do the multiplication, and you soon see how greedy the RIAA are. They are suing allofmp3.com for a massive $1,650,000,000,000 - yes, you did read that right, $1.65 TRILLION dollars. Imagine Microsoft, then add Wal-mart, Apple and Ikea. Now times that by four. Thats how much money the RIAA want.

More info:

http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/12/22 ... -trillion/

Adbot · **Posted:** December 24th, 2006, 11:19 am

Warren · **Posted:** December 24th, 2006, 12:46 pm

$150 000 a song... What the hell. Seeing as it was a Russian site and its legal in Russia... it shouldn't be that much. The site should be shut down, yes. Or at least closed to anyone where its illegal in their country. If their going to get sued I think $10 a song would be more realistic.

Evelyn · **Posted:** December 24th, 2006, 12:49 pm

LOL, USA is trying control the world again...

^^DO NOT FLAME

Pat · **Posted:** December 24th, 2006, 2:35 pm

lol irl. They'll never get the money, Allofmp3 will go ultra-bankrupt. The bad part is that Russia can protect the business.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** December 24th, 2006, 4:01 pm

It'll never happen.

The Killer · **Posted:** December 24th, 2006, 10:30 pm

Cliff Dude wrote:

LOL, USA is trying control the world again...

^^DO NOT FLAME

QFT

Adbot · **Posted:** December 24th, 2006, 10:30 pm

Brandt · **Posted:** December 24th, 2006, 10:40 pm

We aren't trying..we are :p..nah..jk, lol

neways..they might sue for that much, but they wont get 10% of that XD

Mikhail · **Posted:** December 24th, 2006, 11:29 pm

Lol...Not again they tried to do it before....I downloaded music many times from this site!.

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** December 25th, 2006, 9:59 pm

CreepyPirate wrote:

It'll never happen.

Agreed.

Lawsuits fought over international borders are not easy to win. The RIAA may have supreme rule in the US, but in Europe and Asia it's hopeless. Sweden was put under pressure by the MPAA and RIAA to go after the Torrent site, Pirate Bay, but nothing came of the seizure of several servers.

AllOfMP3 operates off of some obscure law in Russia regarding cable TV, but it'll be interesting to see if the courts give this credence.

Ranging God · **Posted:** December 26th, 2006, 8:32 am

Yeah, I dont think it will work. Like CP & mq AND Cliff, and a lot for other ppl said the US doesent control Russia.