Posted by ZnU on 11/16/28 11:50

In article <Xns97E3C1AB04F34wonkynillmailnil@142.77.1.194>,
Gary Tait <classicsat@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.

Under the US compulsory broadcast licensing regime, yes. Allofmp3.com's
claims would tend to suggest this isn't true under Russian law. Whether
this is actually true, I can't say.

--
"Those who enter the country illegally violate the law."
-- George W. Bush in Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 28, 2005

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