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The Russian site claimed it had licenses to do so from a local clearing house, but record labels have maintained that the licenses weren't valid. After long-standing complaints, the Moscow City Police Computer Crimes division completed an investigation earlier this month and recommended that prosecutors charge the site's operators with criminal copyright infringement.

Sad news, because allofmp3.com is one of the best models I've seen for buying music online.

In case you haven't seen it, you can basically pick an album, then choose at what bitrate and what compression you want. You can choose between mp3, OGG and FLAC (lossless compression). The only catch is you pay for the bandwidth - so the higher quality the songs, the more you pay. It is an awesome idea.

Its seemed obvious that this site probably hasn't been operating legitimately, so its hard to feel sorry for them being shut down - but at the same time its a pity that there are no legitimate companies offering a similar service.

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