print versionAllofmp3.com press-service says Russian online music store has nothing to do with a britishman arrested yesterday in London, claimed to be "Allofmp3.com representative in Europe" by Western media.
'To our great surprise we learned from BBC news that a 25 year old male was a staff member of our European office', they say in the release, 'He was arrested yesterday, for selling vauchers to purchase music on Allofmp3.com, according to IFPI and BPI'.
The company with a long history of prosecution for copyright infringement (with little success though) says it works absolutely legally in terms of Russian law and keeps no business activites outside the Russian borders.
Further in the statement Allofmp3.com accuses IFPI of making up stories 'to attract attention to its business which looses any rational basis from day to day'. 'They caught a frauder selling gift certificates, invented this never-existed Allofmp3 headquarters and than promoted a brilliant operation of shutting down this evil haven. A young britishman fell a victim to majors fighting technical progress', Russian company concludes.
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