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Originally Posted by solaris
Look at former voucher selling site SongBoom's new review section:
http://www.songboom.com/reviews.html or http://www.songboom.com/comparison_matrix.html
I think that the hunt down made by the MAFIAA might have blown up in their own faces.
Very few AllOfMP3 customers knew of the other quality Russian/Ukrainian sites before the music industry tried to block people from using their credit cards on AllOfMP3.
Now this forum (and for instance SongBoom) have made thousands of users (who will tell their friends, who will tell their friends...) aware of these sites that seem like popping out of nowhere all the time.
Not only that but more and more of them seem to start sister/partner sites, so if the RIAA blocks one, the other will still work, and if that one gets blocked too, they just make yet another clone.
Maybe it's about time the music industry took a long good look at their current business model and 1. ditched DRM 2. offered online encoding themselves. Then maybe they would get some of their customers back.
solaris |
The flooding of Russian/Ukrainian sites since the MAFIAA started muscling AllofMP3 is also documented in this article:
http://techdigest.tv/2007/05/paul_mccartneys.html
They compare it to when Napster was taken down and floods of new P2P networks just followed automatically.
solaris