Alltunes.com cut off from 99 percent of payments

The company Internet-Audit, owner of the online music store Alltunes.com, has filed a lawsuit with the Moscow Arbitration Court against Rosbank and its affiliate United Card Services (UCS), which have stopped accepting payments from Visa and MasterCard holders for music purchased at the online store. According to Vedomosti, Visa and MasterCard accounted for 95 to 99 percent of all payments for music bought from Alltunes.com. In a comment to Webplanet, UCS general director Vladimir Komlev pointed out that under contract terms his company may disconnect a client from the system without explaining the reason. But in the case of Alltunes.com the company followed the instructions of the payment systems, which have found the online store to be in violation of copyright laws. A little more than a month ago, Visa and MasterCard ordered their partners to stop processing payments for music bought from Allofmp3.com.