The legal travails of Russian music download service AllOfMP3, which sold music for a few cents per download, are well known. Whether or not it was legal under Russian law, the site was shut down after massive U.S. government pressure on the Russian government and a $1.65 trillion RIAA lawsuit.
AllOfMP3 lives on through an affiliated site called MP3Sparks, although the site is often down for days at a time.
Now a newcomer has launched, MP3Count, which also sells DRM-free MP3 song downloads for less than $0.20 each. The company is based in the Ukraine and can take advantage of some of the same grey-area copyright laws that AllOfMP3 relied on.
MP3Count also gives users a reason to spread the word. Each user is given an affiliate link and 10% of the funds charged by any users that sign up for the service via the link is added to their account.
Check out MP3Sugar.com, it’s the same site, and MP3Sugar has been around for a few years.
that’s clearly a pre-existing site’s design.
It’ll be interesting to see whether or not this new company can succeed? I personally think that Google is spear-heading the way towards making everything free. (If you can say that having to view ads is free.)
cool but i get most of my joints illegal anyway
It didn’t work in Russia, who knows how long it will last in the Ukraine, who is next? Albania?
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exactly.
Unlike Russia, Ukraine is a member of WTO, so those “same grey-area copyright laws” are not going to last.
Ukraine is not yet a member of the WTO, so as not to take all necessary laws
In Ukraine $0.20 is not so cheap…
Are you sure?
I use mp3fiesta.com it’s Russian and it works just great…
It likes sound good
I haven’t tried it in the past few months, but isn’t AllTunes still working? That was the desktop GUI to AllOfMP3 and I could use it when AllOfMP3 was down.
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NOT the Ukraine, just UKRAINE!
This is what I get when I want toa add funds in mp3sugar
You can fill up your account by any of the following ways:
Sorry, payments at Mp3Sugar.com are temporary unavalible.
You can add funds and download some music on other our site:
http://www.Mp3Count.com
All tracks we have are availible on this site, too
what do you think. It is sure to give your mastercard information to a ukrain company?
Fund your account at mp3count and lose your money, that’s what happened to me.
I attempted to login after a few months and my account was closed, gone, zapped from their server. They have not replied to any emails I’ve sent which were nice. I wrote; “Dear Sir/Madam, I attempted to login to my account (mp3count account name) without success, please help, thanks. Sincerely, Mike”
Well, live and learn!
I had an account with MP3sugar and then MP3count, same websites,different names. Now I can not get a reply from MP3count as to what happend to my acount which has vanished. And they are allways down anyway so I went with MP3Panda the sister site to MP3fiesta and it is fantastic.