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Danish Court Orders ISP to Block Access to Russia's AllofMP3.com

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 27, 2006 - 3:04pm.
London - A Danish court has ordered an ISP to block subscribers from accessing controversial Russian digital music store AllofMP3.com. The ruling came as a result of a lawsuit filed by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), an international record label trade group.

The Danish court on Wednesday ordered Sweden-based ISP Tele2 to block its subscribers' access to the Russian download store, which claims to be properly licensed but sells albums for as little as $2. "This judgment is one more step along the road to getting this rogue site closed down. Allofmp3.com illegally offers for sale copies of music that it has no right to reproduce or distribute," said IFPI chairman and CEO I John Kennedy.

The ruling follows decisions from MasterCard and Visa to block payments to AllofMP3.com, and pressure from the U.S. Trade Representative to have the site shuttered.

Related Links:
http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20061026.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/ap_on_hi_te/downloading_music (AP)
http://www.allofmp3.com

Published in BPOCanada, November 2006, Volume 1, No. 1
tags: Internet | Law | Lawsuits | Piracy | Music | Russia | Copyright | ISP | AllofMP3.com | Denmark |

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