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[News] [SOT] Big Media Loses in Russia

Russian music download case rejected

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| Allofmp3.com, which was closed in late June but reopened later under a 
| similar rubric, has been cast as the epitome of Russia's shoddy copyright 
| enforcement and repeatedly held up by U.S. trade negotiators as imperiling 
| Moscow's bid to join the World Trade Organization.   
| 
| Recording companies argued that Mediaservices, which runs the sites, has 
| never had permission to sell their artists' works. 
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070815/ap_on_hi_te/russia_music_downloads

They used politics as means of extortion. Microsoft uses FUD as means of
extortion and record labels use Internet radio tax to do their DRM extortion
routine.

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