Posted by Gary Tait on 11/16/25 11:50

ZnU <znu@fake.invalid> wrote in news:znu-F6A1CA.21095014062006
@individual.net:

> That's quite unclear, actually. Allofmp3.com claims it's covered by a
> loophole in the Russian laws for compulsory broadcast licensing. If
> that's the case, downloading from Allofmp3.com might be legally
> equivalent to recording stuff off the radio in Russia, and then bringing
> the recordings into the US. IANAL, but that doesn't sound illegal.

The illegal part is that one is choosing tracks on demand, rather than a
stream or a bradcst, which is what makes that licensing scheme suspect, as
on demand tracks are licensed in a different manner than broadcast music.

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