Posted by Lordy.UK on 01/19/50 11:43

> The jurisdictions do not overlap - they are separate.
> In Russia, this site is either illegal, or legal, and the consensus
> seems to be that it is legal.

Yes, it is legal under *Russian* copyright law - to sell tge songs.
But it is not legal under *UK* copyright law to buy the songs from them.

I can see what you are getting at, that if it was illegal for them to
sell songs to UK people under Russian copyright law the site would be
illegal, but it's not russian copyright law that is the problem - it's
the law of other countries !

However, the RIAA have, as far as I am aware, no method to force them to
disclose their customer base - so they have no-one to try and
prosecute...

> It cannot simultaneously be both legal and illegal in any one
> jurisdiction.

It's quite simple, Russia has lax copyright laws and allows them to do
pretty much whatever the fuck they want. They pay a fee to the Russian
version of the RIAA to keep themselves legal, that fee does not mean
that they have permission of RIAA in other countries or the performing
artists. It's just that the Russian version of the RIAA has to work with
different laws than the other ones, the fee is sort of a token gesture -
making the best of a bad situation would probably be a good way of
describing it.

What they do is legal in Russia, but what it's customer base is doing
may not be by the definitions of the law of other countries. That,
however is not the concern of AllOfMP3, as it's not them that are
committing the offence !

> Indeed, they are not crying foul.

Is anyone actually crying foul ?
I certainly am not, but that doesn't mean I have to believe what they
are doing is completely legal in all countries...



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Lordy.UK

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