- Looks like Madonna and Warner Music are attempting to use the mobile market to by-pass Russia's AllofMP3.com, which continues to dominate online music downloads.

So far, Big Four Organized Music cartel efforts to milk potential online customers in the same way they do offline consumers have failed miserably.

The Big Four, Warner Music (US), EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France) and Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) have been using courts around the world to try to sue consumers into buying lack-luster, grossly over-priced product.

They've been similarly pursuing AllofMP3.com, which because it sells its downloads by size rather than unit, is able to offer digital files at a fair and reasonable price.

"The American music major will provide content to VimpelCom, which has 45 million subscribers in Russia, when it launches a music to mobile service later this month," says The Times Online.

"The deal has been struck to come just ahead of Madonna’s arrival in Moscow, where the Warner Music superstar is playing for the first time in her long career next month. Warner has long steered clear of Russia - preferring to concentrate its efforts in the United States - while rivals Universal and SonyBMG have subsidiaries there."

Warner, "has made only a limited amount of its content available because it was concerned about the levels of physical piracy," says the story, going on, "However, the belief is that mobile is a more secure system and represents a way for Warner to establish itself profitably in the country. EMI has found there is good demand for mobile content in the country, selling 550,000 ringtunes of French DJ David Guetta’s World is Mine."

Warner and EMI are "vying" to prove each has the faster-growing business while they wait for the European Commission, "to resolve the legality of the Sony BMG merger," says The Times Online, adding:

"The British and American companies tried to buy each other, although each rejected the other’s bid."

Madonna also has it in for Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige and Eve, inspiring a p2pnet reader to post:

Oh, those beefs are in the tradition of Mary J. Blige's rendition - eXtremely minor. Spoken X Digital Media Group is not so pleased to announce the delivery of Literati X's historical derivatives to (30) unmentioned and un-named world wide companies without sitting down with the 200% BMI songwriter for a cup of coffee and asking for the permission (s) .

Like Steve Jobs once pronounced - Bob Dylan is the most respected poet and musician of our times and Literati X wholeheartedly agree: If someone respected Literati X like someone respected Mr. Dylan, then someone would not be in Manhattan Federal Court with an injunction slipped up their ass like an enema waiting for the 550 lb bags of one hundred dollar bills to drop out of their big Music butts: "Sound of Literati" witness the powerful eXperience of the spoken word eXplosion as Literati X attempt to become a billionaire poet. . .

Also See:
Russia's AllofMP3.com - Kill AllofMP3.com, BPI tells Putin, July 14, 2006
The Times Online - Warner agrees deal to take on Russian piracy, August 11, 2006
has it in - Madonna sues Dr Dre, August 8, 2006