Farewell AllOfMP3...

It looks like Russia is finally bowing to pressure from the USA to shut down allofmp3.

As of writing this, the site is still online (and, somehow I've managed to end up with a balance of -$0.21 – Yes, minus 21 cents) so I'm not going to try and get any more credit as it doesn't seem like it will be around for long.

One of the things that sucks about this is that just by shutting down this site, sales of music from RIAA labels will not suddenly, magically increase. When will they realise that the majority of music released today is crap and once they realise that their business practices are straight out of last century? Why don't they embrace this brave, new world and offer consumers what they want (ie, inexpensive, high-quality, non-DRM music downloads)?

As good as the iTunes Music Store is, I can't take a protected AAC file downloaded from there, burn it to CD and play it on the Sony headunit in my car... Grrr!