Diary of a Bad Golfer

The RIAA has filed a complaint against Mediaservices, the company that owns AllofMP3.com, on behalf of EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music, and Warner Music. The lawsuit has been filed in a New York District Court.

The RIAA alleges that in the third quarter of this year alone 11 million songs were illegally downloaded from AllofMP3. They are seeking $150,000 per violation which totals approximately $1.65 trillion.

AllofMP3 argue that they pay royalties through a Russian royalty agency, ROMS. The RIAA does not recognise ROMS. They say the “defendant’s entire business… amounts to nothing more than a massive infringement of plaintiffs’ exclusive rights…”