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Re: Hardly surprising - allofmp3 was a pirate outfit
said by LilYoda  :said by tapeloop :With my limited knowledge of how the WTO works, I imagine that agreement to join the WTO requires that participating members honor (at least on the surface) the other member countries' trade-related laws, e.g. intellectual property. Just my guess. Internationally yes. But locally? I mean for exemple, the sale of Marijuana is illegal in the US, and legal in the netherlands. That doesn't prevent the Netherlands to be in the WTO. I see your logic, but at the same time marijuana is not traded internationally between the US and the Netherlands. (At least not in the open market...  )
Unless the RIAA, or a new version of the RIAA in Russia is mandated by the Russian government as the official copyright holder *in Russia*, then as far as I would understand it, ROMS would still bt the legal entity to collect copyright payment in Russia, for Russian customers.
So what Russia could do is force ROMS to pay back some of what it collects to the original copyright holder (which is where I believe that Russian law has to be modified), which would in turn increase ROMS fees, and allOfMP3.com's price
But shutting down allOfMP3, for Russian customers seems a bit surreal to me. If Russian people can still go to the store, buy a CD for $3, where the fee is payed to ROMS, and ROMS still doesn't pay a dime to the original artist or copyright holder, then what's next? The US will ask that Music stores in Moscow's streets be illegal?
My theory is that that US, leveraged by the entertainment industry, in turn used its leverage to get Russia to shut down completely allofmp3.com rather than to leave it open and potentially available to US consumers.
I doubt that Russia would put the same pressure on the brick and mortar stores in its borders, but I think the US would.
I didn't say it makes sense. 
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