“U.S. Consumers are Likely Legally Purchasing Music From AllofMP3.com”

AllofMP3 wants US consumers to come back, although it is not clear how US consumers are supposed to pay for the music they download because earlier this year the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry convinced Mastercard and Visa to stop processing transactions from AllofMP3. Maybe they take IOUs?

The U.S. and Russia have agreed to combat piracy by closing down several websites that infringe copyrights, according to the document, which cites Allofmp3.com as a prime example of such a website.

It appears that Russia has agreed to close AllofMP3 according to US demands, to improve their chance of joining the WTO. I hope its not true. It was a good service to millions of US consumers who couldn’t afford $1 a song to get music to fill their ipod, which would have been thousands of dollars if they had bought it all through iTunes.