don't say I didn't warn you

From NYT:

PARIS, June 1 — Rising consumer popularity is turning AllofMP3.com, a music downloading service based in Moscow, into a global Internet success story, except for one important detail: The site may well be illegal. ...

Music industry officials say AllofMP3, which first came to their attention in 2004, is a large-scale commercial piracy site, and they dismiss its claims of legality. "It is totally unprecedented to have a pirate site operating so openly for so long," said Neil Turkewitz, executive vice president of the Recording Industry Association of America, who is based in Washington.

Read the whole article. Perhaps because it's actually reprinted from the International Herald Tribune, the article has no specific discussion of the site's legality in America. It seems to be perfectly legal in Russia, although the article lamely makes it out to sound really shady. The claims of it being "a pirate site," though, are baseless and lame. My advice is get yourself some cheap music before the lawyers get to it.