Record companies discover another interesting way to waste cash on legal fees

While we're sure they have some really subtle game plan that means it's not just a bit of corporate cock-waving, the decision of the RIAA companies to sue Allofmp3 in New York seems to offer them little more than the prospect of buying more condos and cars for American lawyers.

While it's almost certain that the US courts will find in favour of the record companies, it's not clear what good a judgement would do for them. How, exactly, do they intend to impose the will of a Manhattan courtroom on a server somewhere in Eastern Europe?

So, if they win, they've got an expensive judgement that won't mean anything without a secondary case in Russia; and, in the unlikely event they lose, the record companies will have generated themselves an unhappy green light for Allofmp3's business. The end result will be either pointless or reckless.

You can just about see that taking direct legal action in Russia might have had some sort of sense to it, so it's curious that the labels haven't followed that path.

Can't be that they're no so certain that their interpretation of Russian copyright law is more accurate than that of Allofmp3's, can it?

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