Allofmp3 has been down for a few days now, which leaves me to believe that they’ve probably settled with the industry out of court and called it quits. Many other similar websites have been doing the same since 2003.

I think whats most important here though is that the industry take something from the allofmp3.com handbook. There will always be those of us that strictly buy cd’s, for one reason or another. That demographic is constant. But if the industry also offered an affordable (maybe not $1.07 per record affordable, but you know, budgetable) music downloading service, who knows the possiblity. I think who really loses here though are russian music fans. In russia, Cd’s only go for between 2 and 3 US dollars (when converted), and allofmp3 wasn’t much less, but it did give them a convenient way to access music for a fair price. If you’re from the US or Uk and you use allofmp3, you should be ashamed. Don’t be surprised when U.S. artists stop making music cuz’ you gave em’ 2 bucks a pop for their hard work.