{"id":199701,"date":"2007-07-04T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/04\/the-riaa-has-me-rooting-for-the-russians\/"},"modified":"2007-07-04T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T21:19:00","slug":"the-riaa-has-me-rooting-for-the-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/04\/the-riaa-has-me-rooting-for-the-russians\/","title":{"rendered":"The RIAA Has Me Rooting for the Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heck, if the choice was between the RIAA and Dick Cheney, I&#8217;m not sure how I&#8217;d choose.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/07\/03\/allofmp3_gone\/\">Russian copyright wars to continue despite AllofMP3 shutdown<\/a><\/span><br \/>By Chris Williams<br \/>Published Tuesday 3rd July 2007 10:47 GMT<\/p>\n<p>AllofMP3.com, the UK&#8217;s second most popular source for music downloads after iTunes, has been shut down after diplomatic pressure was piled on Russian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>MediaServices, the combative firm behind the site, is still selling cut-price music however, meaning the international legal posturing is set to continue.<\/p>\n<p>The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which had won the right to sue AllofMP3 in the UK, told The Reg this morning it was unsure how the shutdown would affect its legal attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heck, if the choice was between the RIAA and Dick Cheney, I&#8217;m not sure how I&#8217;d choose. Russian copyright wars to continue despite AllofMP3 shutdownBy Chris WilliamsPublished Tuesday 3rd July 2007 10:47 GMT AllofMP3.com, the UK&#8217;s second most popular source for music downloads after iTunes, has been shut down after diplomatic pressure was piled on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1052,1016,1109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-crimes","category-international-commerce","category-ip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}