Ohlamon’s Technology News Blog

Lawsuit was filed in New York, and Allofmp3 is a Russian company, meaning the laws in the US are pretty much meaningless to it. There’s a good chance that Allofmp3 will simply ignore the lawsuit, their argument would have to be that they believe they’re in compliance with Russian laws which making distribution music over the Internet equal to FM broadcast and Allofmp3 has legal radio broadcast license. And if an American buys a song from their site and downloads it, it’s no different than if that same person came to Russia, bought something there legally, and brought it back with them to the US. Of course, the RIAA probably doesn’t care what Allofmp3’s defense is. They just want to cause trouble for the company by burdening it with lawsuits — the same thing they’ve done to Napster, Grokster, Kazaa and others.