December 21, 2006 at 02:58AllofMP3.com again set up a “meeting” in court
A new weighty pebble fell into the AllofMP3.com vegetable garden . Today it became known that a number of world record majors filed a class action lawsuit against the company Mediaservices, which owns the ill-fated online store.
According to Interfax , the plaintiffs included Warner Music, Sony BMG, and Capital Records. They accused Mediaservices of gross copyright infringement and are demanding in court to ban sales of music content on AllofMP3.com. The trial will be conducted by the court of the southern district of New York.
This is far from the first lawsuit involving the defendants of AllofMP3.com hosts. At the end of June this year, a lawsuit with Mediaservices beganBritish Phonographic Institute However, it is not yet clear how much local justice has advanced in resolving the conflict. The Russian online store does not pay royalties due to Western standards. AllofMP3.com owners continue to insist that their business does not violate the laws of the country.
More than once, the American Recording Association (RIAA) and the International Recording Federation (IFPI) have tried to prevent the website from flourishing. The latter filed several complaints with the Moscow prosecutor's office against top managers of Mediaservices Vadim Mamotin and Denis Kvasov. The prosecutor’s office seized the server AllofMP3.com, but the site “lay down” for only a day. For a longer period, the sale of cheap music did not stop.
Even sanctionsVisa and MasterCard, which banned their partners from accepting payments for purchases on AllofMP3.com, had nothing to do with the store. At least representatives of the online store claim that the “conspiracy” of payment systems did not affect sales much. But if AllofMP3.com is mentioned as a barrier to Russia's entry into the WTO, Mediaservices prefers to respond radically. An example is the recent statement by Vadim Mamotin that the US government uses AllofMP3.com only as an excuse to make new concessions on the part of Russia.
According to Interfax , the plaintiffs included Warner Music, Sony BMG, and Capital Records. They accused Mediaservices of gross copyright infringement and are demanding in court to ban sales of music content on AllofMP3.com. The trial will be conducted by the court of the southern district of New York.
This is far from the first lawsuit involving the defendants of AllofMP3.com hosts. At the end of June this year, a lawsuit with Mediaservices beganBritish Phonographic Institute However, it is not yet clear how much local justice has advanced in resolving the conflict. The Russian online store does not pay royalties due to Western standards. AllofMP3.com owners continue to insist that their business does not violate the laws of the country.
More than once, the American Recording Association (RIAA) and the International Recording Federation (IFPI) have tried to prevent the website from flourishing. The latter filed several complaints with the Moscow prosecutor's office against top managers of Mediaservices Vadim Mamotin and Denis Kvasov. The prosecutor’s office seized the server AllofMP3.com, but the site “lay down” for only a day. For a longer period, the sale of cheap music did not stop.
Even sanctionsVisa and MasterCard, which banned their partners from accepting payments for purchases on AllofMP3.com, had nothing to do with the store. At least representatives of the online store claim that the “conspiracy” of payment systems did not affect sales much. But if AllofMP3.com is mentioned as a barrier to Russia's entry into the WTO, Mediaservices prefers to respond radically. An example is the recent statement by Vadim Mamotin that the US government uses AllofMP3.com only as an excuse to make new concessions on the part of Russia.