The former head of the popular - yet - shady MP3 website Allofmp3.com is look at some jail time and some tidy amercement in his home land of Russia now that his web site has been shut down . The authorities say he owe the RIAA a bunch of money and was desecrate all sorts of copyright jurisprudence . The only problem is , well , that he did n’t actually break any Russian laws by running the site .
While he deal boatloads of copyrighted files from his land site with well-nigh none of the revenues going to the copyright owner , he was actually giving 15 % of his tax income to the Russian Organization for Multimedia and Digital Systems ( ROMS ) , a accumulate government agency similar to ASCAP here in the States . If a record label went to ROMS and enquire for their cut , they would have get it , but they would have had to concur that the whole office was legit .
Even if they did n’t think it was , it was how things worked in Russia , at least until the RIAA put air pressure on the US authorities to put pressure on the Russian regime to change their copyright laws . Now the law have been changed , Allofmp3.com has been shut down only to be replaced by a number of very standardized sites , and Denis Kvasov is being prosecuted for break in police that did n’t exist when his site was up and running . Boy , what a heartwarming storey ! But hey , if the Black Eyed Peas get a few more buck in royalties out of this , I gauge it ’ll all be deserving it , veracious ? [ CrunchGear ]
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