allofmp3 26 posts

If allofmp3 is so "legit" why dont you find a way to allow people to pay for your music? Why is it reported you are being shut down June 1?

The AllofMP3 Administration continues to ignore the facts, people cant pay you for music. Do something and stop pointing the finger at everyone else.

Umm, "by I smell a lie," you are pretty funny. If you live within Russia where allofmp3.com operates, you can buy music to your heart's content. Outside of Russia, where allofmp3.com has no control over the actions of people and organizations, groups like the ifpi and the RIAA have worked hard to try to prevent people from being able to send money to allofmp3.com in exchange for music. The moral and legal issues exist only for you (presumably in the west). Allofmp3.com is as legal as any other music broadcaster or reseller in Russia. Copyright fees are being paid. Perhaps the IFPI and the RIAA should contact the russian copyright licensing people and work out the details to transfer these fees to the copyright holders (that's what the money is collected for, after all). But they've chosen to not do that. So one has to wonder what the IFPI and RIAA is really all about.

In a twist of irony, the RIAA in the US has announced that they intend to push for broadcasting fees for radio stations. Even radio stations that broadcast music that is not copyright any RIAA member. They've taken it upon themselves to act in the interest of all copyright holders, even those who want nothing to do with the RIAA. Yet the fees they collect will not go into the hands of the artists (non-RIAA artists especially). How is this more moral than the way the Russian copyright law works (which doesn't help artists either, let's be clear)?

It is this rank hypocrisy that really irritates the rest of the world. Your comment makes no sense. If allofmp3.com has something you want, it's up to you to find a way to pay for it.

As for "chuckles" comment, well that doesn't make any sense either. What are you saying? Do you want to force allofmp3.com to sell you music? I'm not clear as to your point.

The truth is that though the IFPI and BPI mat try, they can never close down completely on this trend. Hundreds of thousands of people download music on their own without even 'getting vouchers from AllofMP3' or indeed other online sellers.

Until the music companies realise that the 'game is up' (as in the fact that everyday technology has caught up with the hype they've been feeding us for years) and actually price CD's and other media at reasonable levels, they will continue to lose out.

How nice that the RIAA staff can find time to post comments on your site as soon as you post the news, trying to discredit the article.

How nice that they cant compile thoughtfull arguments that could prove their case and instead need to resort to scare tactics.

How nice that when my children have children these dinosaur companies will be out of business - having failed completely to grasp their clients desires!

Rest in Peace y'all

- You tried, you failed - now let go ...
(whilst you can still retain some dignity!)

The most sensible idea the RIAA could have is to create their own copy of allofmp3.com, at least that's better than loosing all this money to an "illegal" store.... after all, if Allofmp3.com closes the only place I'm gonna go to is back to p2p and when I do the gigabytes upon gigabytes of music I've bought thanks to this wonderful site along with it's perfect ID3 tags and file names will go with me.... what’s more thanks to VPN technology and Swedish law there is little the RIAA will be able to do to 1) trace me and 2) take civil court action against me.

i repeat again and again...
i CAN pay and i am not the only one
please go to http://www.aom3.org/forum/ and read it

If you do not agree or support Allofmp3.. why are you here..they are telling you that the record industry is using storm trooper tactics
and directly telling you the falsehood of the allegations and all
you complainers can think about is yourselves, while they are under siege and are braving it out?...you are acting just as petty and greedy as their oppressors..why don't they let you in because it's THEIR business and they can do as they please..remember we all have options in life..use them...allofmp3 has given me alot of great music
in the past and has given us this open forum..this alone is reason for me to give them my continued support ..and I am not alone!

Visa allows folks to pay for kiddie porn, but not music. Yea, the world makes sense.

OK, so I stopped being able to use my Visa to directly pay for my music from AllofMP3. Took me all of about ten minute to set up so as to use the exact same Visa card to pay them through a third party bill processor.

I wish it was half a easy to get at my money that the US Government has illegally blocked the online poker room I play at from remitting to me.

Allofmp3 and / or cheap music will survive !

The only ones that may not survive much longer are the big music companies who want to earn billions but are unable to adapt to modern technology and make most of the music lovers MAD at them. If they succeed to close Allofmp3 all will all turn to P2P with proxies and it will only get worse.

Never forget technology goes faster than law, we will beat you, no matter how.

I would be glad to pay for every song as long as the money goes to the artists not to big companies !

I REFUSE TO SUBMIT to this big companies wanting to rip everyone's money off.

Come one artists, do like others already do, open your own stores and sell your music directly at a reasonable price (US$ 3.00 per album). Bad artists and commercial $ only making music will simply be put out of business for the benefit of all !

I so greatly appreciate allofmp3. I am grateful for the beautiful and functional site design, and for the music that is available. It is a beacon to the world. I hope the Russian government can be independent and stand up to the bullying coming from the US.

The corruption of the copyright system that the RIAA has managed to buy into US law has been a tragedy. The RIAA's greed has alienated me to a point of no return. They don't want a fair market return, they want nothing less than dictatorial monopoly. They are happy to cheat both the artists and the consumers to enrich themselves, though they produce nothing. The future of my music acquisition will never include any distribution authorized by the RIAA. They are such fools to not realize that it is the consumer and the artist who have the ultimate power. They take all the fun out of music. I look forward to their collapse.

I hope things will get sorted out for this site, but have to admit to coming on now to use up the last of my credit in case the rumours are true- its even been hard to get on and keep getting server error messages.

I like this site a lot-its easy to navigate and has a good selection of music. I'd be happy to do whatever I need to to keep using the site, even sending a personal cheque to an individual in Russia if thats what it comes to.

Does anyone know where we can lodge a protest about this?

I don't understand why people vent their spleen at AllofMP3. Clearly the villains in this game are the corporates who are ripping us off. Anyone done some price comparisons on iTunes for example? Check out the price of Frank Black - more than the price of the CD!! I bet he sees squat of that extra cash. And for those who can't find a way to pay - boo hoo!!! Everytime AllofMP3 has been blocked for example by the hypocrites at Mastercard or Visa I have found a way around. ALLOFMP3 ROCKS!!! And keep on fighting the good fight

RickInNoCa, Please do advise how you pay money. I've bought loads from this site and love it. Have now got many albums bookmarked to buy. Keep coming back to try and enter credit card details but failing. Please Please help and soon.

I do not like the P2P thing. I prefer allofmp3. They have set up the future of music online sales. Ironic that U.S.A/england are doing the communist strong arm tactics to protect monopoly's and its Russia leading the free market. Blows my mind!!!

I just want to know how I can get allofmp3 my money from Canada so that I can pay for an item and not get royally shafted(read paying 10000% over the price an item should be listed for) by some corporation.

Hey SneakyPete, Please let us know how we can refill our balance. I love this site, and there is a lot of stuff that I want to download, but I can't unless I can refill my balance. Thanks!

You charge too little. In the U.K. we are charged by itunes an alarming 79 pence per track. Be more businesslike, come to an agreement to pay mutually agreed royalties to the major producers, then come to a charge of say 50 pence per track which I'm sure everyone would gladly pay, you would soon annihilate itunes by fair competition.
Your site is truly the best - fight on.

Yep the best site of all I've looked into since all the crap started.

Ok SneakyPete, stop yanking our chains and let us all know how you got around it... or maybe you didn't?

Lucas, go somewhere and die and do the human race a favor you pedofile.

@ RickInNoCa

Hi, please tell us how you made the payment. thx

There "are ways" to purchase, you can read the forums posted by Wren. However, it is not a "10 minute" solution from as much as I've tried. I think we should all be patient, there must be something being done behind doors to get payments back on track.

BTW, here we are in the age of information (in)security trying to protect our workplaces from the criminals of the IT underworld, and the RIAA and other such a*holes are using CRIMINAL tactics against their enemies, i.e. DDOS attacks constantly keep AOMP3s sites offline. Nice one. I guess this is the wild wild west, where it's basically kill or be killed, so much for the civilized way of life.

It seems that allofmp3.com IS legal in Russia. It if isn't then why haven't they been shut down? The RIAA has had to resort to bullying tactics to get VISA, Master Card, and PayPal to stop allowing their customers to use their services to make purchases from allofmp3.com. Why would they have to take that approach if allofmp3.com was illegal? Why would they push to get the British guy arrested for helping facilitate payments to allofmp3.com instead of doing something about allofmp3.com directly? Apparently they can't do anything to them directly. Having RIAA shills make the first couple of posts here is pathetic. The RIAA is looking out for the RIAA. Even the big name artists get only about $1.00 from the sale of a CD. The lion's share of the profit goes to the large companies. Artists are making most of their money from concerts now. The record companies are starting to grab a percentage of that now too by writing it into new contracts that they get a percentage of concert revenue. They dropped the ball when people wanted music in digital formats and they stuck to their existing proven methods of making profits. As digital tracks were being traded illegally on the Internet they failed to take advantage of the enormous opportunity they had to get in on the action early. If they had started online sales at a reasonable price early on they could maintained their monopoly. People would have gotten their first taste of music online from the music companies and would have thought it was great to purchase individual songs online. The illegal methods of distribution would have never taken hold for the masses. Now they are paying the price for their mistake. The movie industry saw the mistakes of the music industry and is trying to not let it happen to them. As people get more bandwidth and downloading the much larger movie files becomes practical it could become a problem, but the movie industry is already pushing legal methods of online distribution (NetFlix's Watch Now, etc). I'd rather pay a few dollars to legally and conveniently download a movie right now than have to queue it on a P2P network for days to get it. The current price for music tracks online averages $.99. That is $10 for a CD's worth of music and is too much. In the stores the physical CD cost $15. The overhead to sell the tracks online is much less than manufacturing a CD, shipping it to a distributer, then to BestBuy's warehouse, then again to each store, pay the salespeople, etc. If they sold tracks for $.25 they could still make a profit and most people wouldn't bother with the other methods. Wow, a whole CD for $2.50! Sounds a lot like allofmp3.com.

I managed to refill my Balance with Mastercard yesterday. Go for it, who knows how long.

No , this is RIGHT. I have not been able to purchase music since Feb. 4, 07. Not at all. All I get is error messg. on my computer. Now I live in US. Am I getting blocked?

My band made a CD last year. Let me inform you, of not what the big labels get , but a starting point that nearly 100% of all Artist use initially. We cut a CD in a very nice studio, 3 months in the studio off and on to get every track perfect. Total cost was 8,000.00 with 5,500.00. going to the studio. Rest was sent to a CD company who took the CD master and made 1000 copies.

Is it me or has the aom3.org site completely vanished? The DNS doesn't resolve. This stinks.

"by D'Oh!, 24 May 2007, 05:20

Visa allows folks to pay for kiddie porn, but not music. Yea, the world makes sense."

Are you speaking from personal experience?

I read with interest all the commenst about getting payments to AllofMP3. I too, want to refill my account and have been unable to. My first thought was to contact friends in Russia and have them refill my account. But then looking at all the comments on the board I realized that the answer will soon be staring me in the face. With so many of us wanting and demanding this service, the music industry cannot bury it's collective head in the sand. Even at $2.50 per CD there is profit waiting to be taken. Just be patient it is coming.

Well why dont they tell the Russian Government to do something about it if they're legal in russia.

I have just transferred money into an account, as per all ofs instructions. I am now waiting to see if my balance is filled. Ok this cost me £13 to do through my UK bank, but hey it still works out cheaper than itunes, etc. I had not purchased an album for about 4/5 years until I came accross All OF. At one point I had the entire top 75. Keep up the good work All OF, dont let them win. Thanks

Stop saying I refilled my account using my ex wife's korean bank account in russia thru a friend who lives in poland. Either give step by step methods on how you did it and what country you are from or stop wasting our time with your fantasies.

aom3 is a great idea, but only if you got in on it early enough. Guess slow pokes are out.
I feel the need to become an Anti-RIAA member, but don't know where to start. Word of mouth is the best I can do.
Old fart who's slow to get up ;-)

IFPI & RIAA corrupt dog fuckers continue licking people's ass for money! The pure power is with allofmp3. allofmp3 don't doing business with anal holes called IFPI & RIAA!

why dont you let us pay via paypal? or buy vouchers through ebay maybe???

Intellectual property is theft!

Hello, really, can ANYONE manage to refill your balance in the U.K.?!!! this is v. frustrating and this site has been ignoring my comments over the last few months.

I agree with CHUCLKES. please if you manage to refill balance please let all of us know the step by step intstructions. Thanks.

I have just done a wire transfer from my bank, strightforward, and no problems.
My updated balance appeared about 7 days after the transfer document was filled in at my branch.

... but are you reading this subject or not ???
i repeat, again...
for those who CAN'T refill, go to http://www.aom3.org/forum/

According to a heads of agreement between the Russian and United States governments signed in November 2006, Allofmp3 and like organisations are to be closed by June 1 this year. The payoff is for America to back Russia's application to the World Trade Organistion.

However in recent months relations between the two countries has been cooling so we'll have to see what happens in the next week or two. In a nutshell I wouldn't be puting any money into Allofmp3 for a little while yet. You may lose it.

Likewise some recent events may see allofmp3 closed, but other very similar organisations with similar expertise appear on the net.

I spin the records nigga's ya'll rednecks better check me at the door I got a 9 + a clip on my hip and I'm about to explode. I'm coming to the RIAA to make some honky joe's RIP. The man wont hold down a brother anymmore, its time to take a stand against America.

It would be nice if we can pay for the music again like we used to. Example. I used to be able to pay thru "Chronopay" then went to "Xrost". Now I cant even do that! Anyone else have any ideas as to where to pay for the music?

The US Government is once again using coercive tactics to force other countries to their will. They tried the legal avenue but true to form they always talk about "fair play" but when they are losing they take their ball and go home.
You all know how they are? Just read your history books.

Wake up America! You used to protest at the drop of a hat. Your government steals elections, sacrifices its noble soldiers for the profit of a few and we don't hear a whimper. Take care of your mess. You owe it the men who risk their lives so you sleep safe at night.

The world is changing. ADAPT!

There is a larger issue here.
An international accepted currency system has refused to service a business on the grounds that an American organisation has declared it illegal. It was not tried in an international court. The Russian legal system is considering the case only through pressure from America.

Is this the world we are headed for? The internet was supposed to be about freedom without borders. I guess we are only as free as when it suits them.

Today it's music. What will it be tomorrow? Perhaps they will freeze the accounts of political parties they don't agree with? Scary.

I better shut up before they come for me.

There are companies that, every day, operate within the confines of their countries legal system and we are allowed to buy their products. The Chinese reverse-engineer every patent protected doohickey, make a slight alteration and pay workers 1 USD per day to make it. We can buy this shit all day long at Wal-Mart with a Visa. There is no difference with allofmp3 (except it's not shit). What they do is legal and the record companies are pissed because they can't get their fat-asses out of their chair and do anything, so they've coerced the RIAA into doing their dirty-work. I guarantee the record companies spend big $$ on lawyers and accountants finding loopholes to make money in other countries. Quit buying CD's 9and gasoline for that matter) and things will change; Economics 101 people.

I can refill my balance with a credit card. I Smell a Lie and Chuckles, why don't you send me your credit card numbers, user ids and passwords and I'll refill your accounts.

I love it fellas. Stick it to the RIAA. We all know that you dont pay for the copyrights but what the hell. Everytime I see MTV cribs I get the feeling that your just making money outts something like the rest of.

Capitalist society = exploitation. This just happens have a piece of prehistoric law preventing it being legal. Its victimless crime unless you that eminem not having another solid gold backscratcher is a travesty.

We will look back in 10 yrs and be shcoked that we used to actually pay for music.

Ya ok Brooklyn Bridge. Sounds like a great idea, why dont you send yours first you rainbow wearing moron. I bet you got rainbow stickers all over pansy place.

Oh look it's the 2nd of June and AllOfMP3 still haven't "been shut down". We have heard all this "they are being shut down" F.U.D before, it wasn't true then and it isn't true now. So I smell a lie from "I smell a lie" (which label do you work for or are you just another R.I.A.A shill).

I wish that I could still use my credit card on this site. I used to spend loads of money here every month and I was always very satisfied with the range and quality of the products on offer.

Personally I think it is outrageous that the credit card companies have cancelled this site's accounts. They are now trying to tell us what we can and can't buy with our own money, and that we should not be allowed to import a product from Russia (where the product is sold in compliance with Russian law).

When did the credit card companies become lawyers and moral instructors. Personally I think that this sets a dangerous prescident. Clearly they are bowing to unseen pressure and now that it has happened once it is bound to happen again.

Are credit cards going to become political tools that will be used to apply pressure globally to "rank and file" citizens?

Are the multinational corporations going to disguise their agendas of exploitation, self interest and greed as "moral guidance"?

It is obvious that the music labels still "don't get it". The more that they "push and shove" the more their own customers will become disgusted and the less "product" they will sell. Hopefully they will do us all a favour and "push and shove" themselves out of business. The sooner the better!

i think its hilarious that the mpaa/riaa (sony, time warner and disney) are threatening a company, that is legal in their own country, because they won't conform to the world price fixing like apples iTunes does. good job allofmp3

If this music shouldn't really be worth so much, according to the laws set forth democratically by our nations, then why do we want it so much? No matter how emptily or deceitfully hyped and inflated the values assigned to art and intellectual property are, if we decide to take creations from other people, crafted individually or in collaborations, or support the secondary trade spawned by theft, we are committing and supporting criminal acts; we are undermining the concsientious and self-determined values which underly the pride of American patriotism and idealism.
If we are too insecure to do without the "cheap" or "effortless" commodities, then we seem to choose to cheapen ourselves. If you step on others, then our justice system will step on you. We designed our system of justice for a reason.
This is a more encompassing issue involving corruption through big business and hoards of distribution and other corporations.
But, we should do our best not to let such frickin corrupt character stain us as well.

Funny, our American bosses are allowed to outsource our jobs to India, while we American consumers aren't allowed to oursource our copyright clearinghouse fees to Russia.

Funny that the RIAA is allowed to operate as a monopolative racket here in America, while cable companies aren't allowed to operate in more than 30% of America's homes.

Funny that the RIAA is now being considered as a legislative and overseeing body of royalty fees, even for non-RIAA member recording houses.

The RIAA seems to have no problem letting Russians pay cheap prices for material, as long as Americans continue to shell out the money.

Can you guys start an AllOfISO.com site for my movies now, please? I'm kinda mad at the MPAA too.

Also, can you accept Neteller or something?

Please will someone sort this out, we are getting so many conflicting comments. I tried to get my sister in Arizona to refill my account but she had never heard of the Credit CaRD THAT WAS AVAILABLE FOR USE.

I suppose it's better to follow the wave of people with rotten morals than resolve to be better ourselves. Just stay out of jail and stay alive, everyone.

As reported today, we will be cancelling all Visa cards that are linked to illegal music downloading. You have been warned.

Brett Jones

It's interesting that a representative of Visa would make such a comment in a public forum, insinuating that Visa makes presumptions regarding legality of music downloads and has an enforcement mechanism without providing a mechanism for legal defense.

If the post is genuine (likely not), then it's also interesting that Visa's attention perks up regarding music downloads, but appears to endorse downloading of pornography, hate literature, and the purchase of weapons. Yeah, that tells you where Visa's moral stance lies. So, how much did music lobbyists pump into Visa, anyhow?

it's so sad that the giant apple itunes doesn't give you any choice, and sells crap quality music for 0.99 euro each song. and nobody says anything...

on allofmp3, if you want cd like quality (lossless), you can have it, but you pay it almost as a physical cd...

i think this i fair.

i hope allofmp3 finds a way to keep giving people a choice.

thanks allofmp3.

Tempting as it is to go for cheap or free downloads, we must keep things in context, whether it be in Russia the U.K. or Timbuktu.

Ask yourself; what do you do to pay the bills at home? Office work? Work in a Factory? Are you an Expert or a Tradesman? Academic, labourer? You get the picture. So, how about if some mysterious person comes into your work place and without saying a word watches what you do for a few hours. Eventually this person goes to see your boss and says “O.K. I can do exactly the same thing as that guy, only, I’ll do it for 75% less. Even better, I’ll do it for nothing”.

Well, if that isn’t bad enough, in the business of music downloads, in the context of this web site, we’re not only talking about denying someone’s legitimate income, we’re also talking about stealing people’s creativity, their ideas, their art.

Go ahead, do it, and make your self feel better by banging on with the age old, worn out war cry of “death to the majors”. “Power to the people” and all of that.

But whilst you’re at it have a think about this. It’s not just the majors that your kicking and it’s not just the independents, who really put the money on the line to try and break new artists, that you’re stealing from. It’s not just the musicians (artists) who, despite whatever you might think don’t want to stay in their bedroom or father’s garages with their new technology, draining themselves of every drop of creativity for nothing. It’s you that your kicking the most.
Why? Because at the moment there are 50 years of back catalogue to go at. Download what you like, go on, take it and gorge yourself because with web sites like this they’re nearly giving it away. But eventually, just like global warming, the rivers of tracks will dry up and by then the part of the industry that really matters, the part that puts its money into getting the music that you like under way, will have been choked out of existence. After you have cheap or free downloaded yourselves to death, without a cent being paid in royalties to the record companies that have paid (and many a time kissed goodbye to) thousands and thousand of dollars in advances to musicians for gear, instruments, putting on gigs and recording studios and expertise that go with them to give recordings the edge, the individuality, the quality that a home pc will never give in a million years and often without any return in their investment, what will you expect?. Do you think that these guy’s instruments and equipment grow on tress? Do you think that the rent or mortgage or gas or electricity people are going to say “Ah, we see that you’re a musician, so, naturally, you don’t have to pay us a penny”. Do you honestly believe that people that run record labels just sit there jamming all of the company’s income into their wallets? Rubbish.

Why is it so different to steal music from the music industry to hurling a brick through a jeweller’s shop window and running off with the stock? The answer is that there is no difference. Every time that you press the “download” button for a free download or one that is so cheap you know that it’s going no further than the wallets of those running the site, imagine that your throwing a brick.

It makes a little bit angry that you can open an new account and then there is no possibility to load money on it (from Germany). A frind of mine has an existing account and is still be able to use his credit card, I can' do that. Obvisously, the newer accounts can't use credit card balancing. If asked, allofmp3.com just said, that they don't have any partners on the net. That's not true. It makes no sense to allow people to open an account which ist absolutely uselsess...

i just want to buy some fookin' music at a reasonable price... c'mon allofmp3.com sell me some freakin music!

Bill Turton, yada yada. First off, EU fucks their citizens with bloody 20% extra charge for nothing, called VAT. There are prosperous countries where they never pay that, at least not 20%, e.g. US or Singapore etc.

Of course its due to different environment and regulations. Now, in Russia its the same. Fees for copyrights are lower, period.

OH SHIT! ijust joined yesterday. I tried to put my credit card number in to make a purchase and couldn't. Don't tell me they are going to close this down now that I found a site I like.

You were just born yesterday?

Bill Turton. - Wise up dumbass. Every minute of every hour someone is put out of a job because some enterprising capitalist sees a way to offer the same service for less money. It's called free enterprise.

And don't give me your crap about preventing music from being made because we are stealing from the mouths of starving musicians. The music scene has never been so healthy. And the reason is that a whole generation of kids have grown up with the ability to listen to whatever they want through Napster and Kazaa, rather than simply being fed what some focus group in Texas thinks that young people want to spend their money on. It's simply not true that record companies supply the cash to pay for musicians instruments. Nobody ever got a record deal before they saved all their paperboy money to buy their first guitar.

I buy my music from a huge range of different sources. From AllofMP3, the church jumble sale, a high street record store, direct from the artist, Beatport, Myspace, charity stores, and subscribing to record labels. I do think about where my money goes, and in the case of major record labels, I worry that only a sickeningly small percentage of it goes to the artist. I worry about this a bit more with AllofMP3, but continue to use it, and its kin, because there are tunes on there I don't know where else I can get.

We are seeing a paradigm shift in the recording industry. Artists don't need to prevent people from listening to their tunes for free, they need to enable as many people to listen to their tunes as possible. There is no way for the recording industry to regain their huge CD sales figures of yesteryear, the world has moved on. The way to profit from the music business of the future is to build a large fanbase and sell them things, like concert tickets, merchandise, and hard copy recording media. Electronic downloads or airplay are a great way to build your fanbase and get your tunes out there.

You sound like King Canute trying to stop the tide coming in.

Big Hugs fae Boab

Cool last comment.

RIAA= GREED

I'm just adding my voice to many more... why can't you correct the problem that has persisted for so long? There is no way to USE the allofMP3 site because we can't add money to make purchases.

If this is a legit site as you claim, you would think you would want to continue to make money.

RIAA - Leave Allofmp3 alone. Go after the fricking Microsoft and Apple monopoly; Allofmp3 is invigorated by technology. Techy companies make huge profits (discl: not sure how much they rip us off exactly). You corporate giants need to learn how to hang in a free for all when competition fuels human progress!

Big Rob knows! Band is a noun and a verb, both usages apply to musicians' fire - everybody likes someone to connect with, or else they're a..ll-kinds-of-repulsive-holes, and hopefully with better access to music they can find a way to be part of the human race. (More privacy for sensitive people to tiptoe into fandom and appreciation)

Earth to Bill turton ..... no one there obviously.
u wanna talk logic lets do that :
old days : 1 cd or LP or cassette = 12 goood tracks at least
today = 1 cd or LP or cassette = 1 track

Answer this then ask anyone, would u rather download or buy a tupac,beatles etc.. CD ->everybody = buy
Would u buy a Paris Hilton, etc.. CD = NO
Lesson : stop producing sh.t and we will buy cds instead of tracks.

also u produce ur cds in china costing u less then a cent for a cd and fire thousands of american factory workers with the excuse of capitalism well....

CAPITALIZE THIS MOTHERF...KER : the cd age is done welcome to the cyber revolution and guess what ur profit is going WAYYY DOWN

PS: remind me in 10 yrs to tell u face to face that ur fired instead of sending you a notice like u do with your employees cuz lets face it ur going out of a job soon !!!

IF downloading a track for a low fee is stealing then...

Buying a cd with 16 tracks for 20$ with 1 or 2 tracks actually worth anything is FRAUD
Definition of FRAUD:

encompasses an array of irregularities and illegal acts characterized by intentional deception. (280.01.1) or

The act of leading a person to believe something which you know to be false in a situation where you know the person will rely on that thing to their detriment

so as was said earlier :

"CAPITALIZE THIS MOTHERF...KER : the cd age is done welcome to the cyber revolution and guess what ur profit is going WAYYY DOWN"

I want to know why i can´t use my credit card to refill my balance.

>To diego

i want to know why you post without reading the entire post...
go to http://www.aom3.org/forum/
and you will see that it's possible to refill...

Yeah it's possible to refill if you are willing to pay more. Stupid idiot.

$25 costs $32

$50 costs $60

$100 costs $115

Isn't it fantastic?

I am a copright holder. I have never been paid by allofmp3. I have never had a reply from allofmp3 to enquiries regarding permissions and copyright.

> to Imax

are you silly ?
read the forum and you can see that we CAN refill balance and not buy vouchers
Who's stupid idiot ? yes, you're right, it's you

To Fred Blogs,

If AllOfMP3 is distributing your copyright material, you can ask AllOfMP3 to withdraw that material. Other artists have apparently done so and AllOfMP3 has apparently complied. Try it. You'll likely be surprised at how reasonable the world is when compared to the organized music lobbyists.

> to Wren

I went to my balance section and I don't have an invitation. I have tried refilling my balance through alltunes and credit card, but that won't work either. The very first time I discovered allofmp3.com was about 3 or 4 months ago, just about when people started having problems, and at the time I could'nt fill my balance. When I was looking at one of the blogs on this site I saw that somebody that called themself "Mike" was helping people out by purchasing gift certificates for them (A very nice person, by the way, since he wasn't required to do so). That seemed to work for me and I was able to refill on my own one time after mike helped out. Since then, nothing has worked. I see that you have directed people to the forum with the address - "http://www.aom3.org/forum/". I have done a search by your username and came up with a lot of your posts. Which one of your posts in particular are you talking about when you say to read "how to refill your balance"? Is there a certain title to a thread that you are talking about? I have some time that I can sift through the info on all your posts, but my time is also limited to a degree. If it can be narrowed down to certain posts it would be greatly appreciated. I want to be certain that I exhaust every avenue possible in refilling my balance.
I wish I would have known about allofmp3 a lot sooner, then I would have been able to get a more music at a lot better deal than the deals, or so called deals out there now (Just my luck). It seems like that always happens that way, doesn't it?
Thanks

Storm in a teacup. I'm a latecomer to this furore, having signed up to see if I could find a particular track I've been looking for and ran into all these issues. Fact is; it can't last forever. Either allofmp3 will come to some sort of compromise deal as suggested above or they won't. Either way, there'll be some new way of getting cheap non-DRM music legally, just maybe not immediately. The big companies can't plug every hole in the dyke. 5 years ago, digital camcorders were over a thousand quid, now they're 300. Have patience my brethren.

Why don't they let you send payments using old fashioned paper? Money orders, travellers' cheques or Postal Orders?
Difficult for those to be electronically blocked.

I personally love this service, and have NO problem if they decided to increase the prices to allow them to comply with the western music companies...

It annoys me that they havn't already, I wouldn't mind paying the £1 / track that i-t#n#s charges.

This is mostly due to the software they use and the fact I can download in Ogg - the better format to MP3 and WMA (IMHO)

PLEASE get western legal! :@)

hey fred blogs,
maybe, just maybe, you haven't got any money from the copyright you're holding 'cuz no one has bought your crap music.
you might try giving it away on myspace.

Today, for the first time, I couldn't refill my balance on allofMP3 but managed to using alltunes. I use mastercard in the UK.

The biggest problems here is that the The Internet as a whole is governed and controlled by the US of A, thus by the flow of money from the RIAA and MPAA, and IFPI and the likes. They are incapable of properly reading (or speaking) Russian, so they all know (like most readers here) one side of the story. Fact remains that ROMS, as stated in several Russian news articles, is used as a political means now, against the wealth of the (overly) rich big-shots trying hard to remain in control over the Music Business money-flow. While they (ROMS.ru) pay out income (directed towards copyright holders and creators) widely in direct lines, the RIAA seem merely pissed at ROMS because their usual middlemen are being avoided by ROMS, hence their false accusations towards AllOFMP3 (and all who are related to it).

I advice most Western readers not to believe everything they tell you about this. If you can read and understand Russian, you'll hear completely different (often opposing) stories, and I (as a European citizen) am getting inclined to believe the Russian side of the story more, since most people in those areas are hardworking honest lads, without any motive to lie to the buyers of music via AllOFMP3.

Allofmp3 rocks and I'm pretty pissed at visa for no longer letting me put money into my balance. If anyone has figured this out let me know, I hate Itunes and the other sites, the cd is dead, long live Allofmp3!

Hey... AllofMp3 is the first case that I've seen where global business and internationalization actually BENEFITS INDIVIDUALS instead of large corporations.

Large corporations LOVE internationalization, right? They get to play be the rules of foreign countries and ignore domestic (Western European or North American) rules on workers rights, fair pay, and the environment.

NOW that THE PEOPLE have turned globalization to their benefit with AllofMp3... they don't like it so well.

I say F*ck 'em. Let the swine suffer by the rules that they made.

Hey this debate is certainly striirng up a storm of participation. Everybody has an opinion. I think Russians are the luckiest people on earth as they can get all the music they want at a reasonable price. Online distribution of music is the way to go and yes the majors are clued out. One of the biggest scam in the industry when they sign an artist are "promotional fees" deducted from earnings generated by a record. These expenses are often physical (print, cd, launch parties, store shelves allocation, distribution fees, shipping fees, traveling expenses, media placement, bookings, rentals, administrative fees, etc.). On top of that they make a percentage on gross sales. On every dollar earned, in most cases the artists are left with at most, 10 cents. With online music, potentially, these traditional expenses are greatly reduced if not completeley abolished. It would seem in theory that this is the way to go to allow for more musicians to be known and live off their art...Because the majors will only promote artists that are "worth" promoting, the consumer is left with very little artistic choice.


One last point, some artists are now starting to get "discovered" off the Internet. That is the single most scariest part of the traditional music industry equation because the majors are losing the last part of the "control" they still enjoyed: the ability to make or break an artist by controlling the distribution network.

Hey I've been trying to buy music here but it says you don't accept creditt cards. That's probably because you cannot sell out of Russia. GET PAYPAL. Also can you provide a proof (a scanned document, a lawfirm attestation, a notary affidavit, an intrust account proof or other) that you are in fact setting aside a potential allocation to artists of the Western world? I understand that it would be written in Russian but I could get it translated with Babelfish (isn't the Internet great ;))

Also,

Can you post somewhere on the site and dynamically, a list of the royalties you would theoretically pay in terms of the titles purchased on your store? It's easy to do with PHP-MySql and it would show how comitted you are to redistributing par tof the money you earn...

I think that we are going to go through a transition where digital downloads are going to kill selling media and the music industry are struggling to cope, they are just trying to make a living. Don't get me wrong, I don't condone what they are doing at the moment(bully tacktics) but think during this transition we are going to get some very odd music for while, its all going to change for the better. It will all sort is self out in time though we can just wait for music to be real and musicians to get what people value their music at and not what some big director decides to market.

I am excited about what is going to happen and cant wait!

bin with allof 4 over a year and when i can refil i will come back because its the best(F*** OFF ITUNES).
there are other russian sites, not as good but u want cheap music go find them. clue?mp3 and its very sweet

ok sounds good
can we use back Visa card or paypall
You must lose lots of clients now?
good luck

u can use visa no probs. min payment $20.as i said,not as good as allof , but will do 4 now.

Someday the greedy will recognize that technology cannot be stopped and the Internet is indeed free. It is ironic they champion free enterprise and gloabl economies, yet they insist on governmental protection for their monopoly. I applaud AllofMP3, but only wish the promise to return would be fulfilled quickly and accounts restored. Can we at least see a projected date of the restart.

chris,

Pop by our forum, where we can help you get your "old" AllOfMP account migrated to MP3Sparks.

Links: http://www.aom3.org/forum/

and

http://www.aom3.org/forum/allofmp3-general-discussion/714-mp3sparks-logon-problems.html#post18227

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