posted this over in dark/exp but just for the sake of thread-friendliness..

some interesting info from mateo murphy:

as those of you who are familiar with allofmp3.com may know, in Russia they have what's called a compulsory licensing law which means that you simply have to make a payment to the appropriate body to sell music online, without requiring permission of the label owner. the thing is that, while they have the right to sell, you don't necessarily have the right to buy because the rest of the world doesn't have the same law and purchase of music is subject to the laws of the buyers country.