Was AllofMp3.com targeted for any one particular reason?

mojo2093

I've been thinking about this for a while and it seems to be quite a conundrum. If we have these numerous other dozens of sites which sell mp3 music at a very reasonable price, what is stopping the music industry from going after them. For example mp3fiesta doubled it's prices, but is still around $3 for a full album. It worries me. This is not only because I can't stand paying $12+ for a CD I may or may not like; but also because with the music industry's current situation, what better do they have to do? Considering how incredibly difficult it is to fund our alltunes accounts, the near shutdown was a rousing success. Was it just because allofmp3 was the best, i.e. it had the most options for downloading quality and the largest library? Or was it simply because it was the most popular? Did Apple have anything to do with the witch hunt? With iTunes as the "socially acceptable" mp3 site it seems likely to me. The real question is what does the music industry think they are going to accomplish by doing these things? To me it makes me even more resistant to paying for physical media.

BTW excellent list of other music downloading sites whoever compiled it.

solaris · **Envy is an UGLY human character -** 05-25-2008, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by mojo2093

I've been thinking about this for a while and it seems to be quite a conundrum. If we have these numerous other dozens of sites which sell mp3 music at a very reasonable price, what is stopping the music industry from going after them. For example mp3fiesta doubled it's prices, but is still around $3 for a full album. It worries me. This is not only because I can't stand paying $12+ for a CD I may or may not like; but also because with the music industry's current situation, what better do they have to do? Considering how incredibly difficult it is to fund our alltunes accounts, the near shutdown was a rousing success. Was it just because allofmp3 was the best, i.e. it had the most options for downloading quality and the largest library? Or was it simply because it was the most popular? Did Apple have anything to do with the witch hunt? With iTunes as the "socially acceptable" mp3 site it seems likely to me. The real question is what does the music industry think they are going to accomplish by doing these things? To me it makes me even more resistant to paying for physical media.

BTW excellent list of other music downloading sites whoever compiled it.

You sum it up pretty well yourself, mojo2093

I'm 100% sure that it was envy, which made them go after AllOfMP3 in the first place. They were by far the largest, they had success, they were able to give their customers what they wanted: optional, bit rates, optional file format and NO F

G DRM. On top of this they didn't discriminate their customers. You didn't HAVE to be American or British or French to visit and buy from their store - ALL music lovers from around the globe were equally welcome

Now that's the way to run a business

I'm also certain that if the music industry had welcomed AllOfMP3 but kindly asked them to raise their prices to for instance $0.05 per MB, I feel confident that this would have been the ultimate solution for everyone involved.

But The MAFIAA didn't just stop there. They are targeting the many other smaller Russian/Ukrainian online music stores - but he administrators there are some pretty sly devils that know how to circumvent those obstacles put in front of them (sometimes it may take a few weeks or months but eventually they will find a solution)

Furthermore The MAFIAA guys probably also know that closing each and every one of these stores wouldn't mean that all those customers would wander happily into iTunes, Napster or whatever to to satisfy their musical urges Because these pseudo music stores simply don't offer the same flexibility that our Russian/Ukrainian friends do. 99% would simply begin (or go back) to use P2P, BitTorrent, Usenet or blogs to get their music without DRM and in higher bit rates - but this time for free

Thank you, we know