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We are sorry but the server is closed…for maintenance

- via AllofMP3.com

I was just being provocative with that headline for those of you reading via RSS. Sorry  I do hate it when services like this go down hard like this. I really wanted to pick up the new Wolfmother album this morning so that I could listen to it on a roadtrip up north that I’m making today. Nada. The service doesn’t exist today. Damn.

I really hope that this is temporary. When these guys go offline for maintenance, I always worry that pressure from Greedy US Media might be the cause of the problem. I’m not too worried about the $14 I have currently have in my account – I’m worried about where I’m going to get the Wolfmother tracks from at a fair price in an unencumbered format. Hopefully I won’t have to go back to my criminal ways and start using BitTorrent to start downloading copyrighted music again.

But if they force my hand, a criminal I will become.

See this post as it first appeared on Blogware.

3 comments

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  1. (name not saved), May 15, 2006

    check out

    or

    both of these sites operate under the same licensing situation in Russia, both are cheaper than AllofMp3, but not as sophisticated, no built-in d/l mamager, etc.
    but, cheap music!!

  2. (name not saved), May 15, 2006

    I'm surprised there isn't more discussion (or even speculation) about this. I figured it would be up in a couple of days but now I'm getting worried...

  3. (name not saved), May 16, 2006

    AllofMP3 seems to be back online as of this morning, except now Alltunes has disappeared...grr :)