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Here's one more 1½ year old article - but in the same evergreen ballpark: The reason AllOfMP3.com is a shadow of its once mighty self is NOT because of legality issues (because those could have been overcome) - but instead it's because of the enviousness of the whole music industry; that these Russians were the first ones to come up with the PERFECT online music store business model

Yet I must admit that I am sorry to see AllOfMP3.com entering what looks a lot like its endgame, both in legal and business terms.

The state of the online music industry remains, almost without exception, utterly pathetic: Try to find another site, for example, that will give customers a choice of bitrates for their downloads. While AllOfMP3.com many have been skirting too close to the edge and making too much noise for its own good, I suspect that the real reason the music industry targeted the site so intently was because it gave too many people too many crazy ideas about what a halfway-decent music download service should offer them.

And these days, that may be the biggest crime of all in the eyes of an industry where "customer service" seldom rises above the level of a sick joke.

Full article here:

http://www.techweb.com/blog/archives...lofmp3com.html