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Originally Posted by trick-r-treat
What funds doesn't it take? And why would the stop taking someone's funds? Is it just a certain form of payment that it won't accept?
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Up until October 2006, AllOfMP3 accepted a wide range of credit cards - or their payment processor did (to be more correct). Then the RIAA and IFPI pressured first Visa and then Mastercard into not accepting payment from the AllOfMP3-site. They in turn pressured Chronopay and then e-centru into dropping AllOfMP3.
Since AllOfMP3 at the time must have been a multi million dollar client, it must have taken the RIAA and IFPI both a lot of threats of lawsuits and probably also a lot of "compensation" to lure Visa and Mastercard into this kind of a boycott. You don't see them pulling the plug on extreme sex (and much worse) sold over the Internet.
I would like them (Visa/Mastercard) to go after the "much worse" from above instead of online music shops that are perfectly legal in their home country. And don't give me that bulls... argument that the "much worse" thing could be legal in some countries of the world also. Don't even try comparing that to selling music - it hurts my ears.
Let's face it: This is about envy. Envy that a bunch of Russians were able to create a music shop that is next to perfect. Far better than anything the music industry have ever created. And if you have read one of my other posts:
http://www.aom3.org/forum/showthread.php?t=52 (Why do you guys use AllOfMP3?) you will know that I
don't mean price.
solaris