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“Does the RIAA have the right to pursue AllOfMP3 when it is clearly outside of its jurisdiction?”

The RIAA has no jurisdiction – it’s just an association representing the IP rights of its members.  Governments have jurisdictions.  “Juris” is Latin for law.  The RIAA has the right to go to the authorities in the jurisdiction in which AllOfMP3 operates and ask for redress for the damages it says AllOfMP3 has caused it by its actions, under the laws in the jurisdiction in question.  You and I have the same right to ask for a prosecutor in any jurisdiction to pursue a criminal case against someone in that jurisdiction you think has wronged you, or to initiate a civil case in that jurisdiction under that jurisdictions laws.

That’s no guarantee of success, of course.  Especially if that jurisdiction doesn't recognize that you've been damaged in some way.  That can happen a lot with intellectual property cases.

Do Russian laws support the RIAA or AllOfMP3?  Consider this.  Russia wants to join the WTO, but is not a member yet.  The last working session on working out the rules was held in March 2006, and the Russian lawmakers are working on legislation to get Russian trade rules consistent with WTO requirements, including laws on how intellectual property is protected.  Actions like how AllOfMP3 is handled will play into how quickly the WTO allows Russia to join.

But then that's the point of the WTO, isn't it?  To make sure everyone is playing by the same set of rules.  As the economic and trade chaos of post-Soviet Russia is slowly tamed by multilateral treaties like those covering accession to the WTO, operations like AllOfMP3 will find that they have to follow the same rules as any American music download site.  Not because the RIAA says so, but because the Russians want it to be that way in order to gain access to markets and other benefits.

It's easy to blame the RIAA for everything.  In this case, though, I'm not certain that they've crossed any lines.

If anything, RIAA is giving more attention to AllOfMP3.  If they are trying to shut them down, they just gave them more business.

Why do the artist have to get paid?
Why cant we have a society that revoles around 9-5 boring jobs and if you happend to make a song for everyone, do it because you love music.. not because its your career

But again I still support communism

U.S. minimum wage is below $5.00 an hour.

In Europe is less than $10.00 dollars a day (not an hour).

In third world countries min wage can be as low as 1.00 dollar a day.

RIAA allows Mexico to sell legitimate CDs for less than $2.00 dollars within that country.  Just imagine: a legitimate CD at $15.00 dollars would equal half a month wages in other countries.

Media services sells CD albums for about $1.00 dollar in Russia. Which is an affordable price to pay at that community. The problem is that Media Services went internet with Allofmp3.com. Customers earning $30.00 a month in 3rd world countries can afford a dollar for an album.

Since the web can be access by Americans that earn $250,000.00 dollars a year; the RIAA believes they are loosing money and revenues otherwise (I call it greed).

Therefore it has to be censored, isolated and eliminated if possible… So that we pay higher royalties than if we were residents of another nation (greed).