An Entire Album of MP3's for less than $5

The music industry is struggling to shut down Russian MP3 store AllOfMP3.com. This site is now second only to iTunes in the UK market in terms of popularity. The range of music they have is very impressive and the site is very good looking and easy to use. So how can they charge only $0.30 – $0.40 per song? Easy, they don’t pay the record labels or artists a cent so it is still incredibly profitable. It is therefore illegal to use this site in most countries, but it isn’t currently illegal in Russia, where the company is based, despite the best efforts of the US to put pressure on the Russian government. It will be interesting to see what happens.

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