Friday 4th March 2005 prime-tass.ru published that the Moscow prosecutors rejected to initiate a criminal case against *well known illegal russian website*
"Moscow, March 4. /Prime-Tass/. The Prosecutor of the Moscow’s South-Western district rejected to initiate a criminal case against distribution of music recordings by *well known illegal russian website* Internet resource. The Prime-TASS was informed of this by an informed source.
The writ about copyright violations by *well known illegal russian website* owners was submitted to the Prosecutor’s Office of Moscow’s South-Western administrative district on February 24, 2005 on behalf of the International Federation for Phonogram Industry /IFPI/.
During the investigation the Prosecutors Office found that the *well known illegal russian website* owners in fact did distribute music recordings via the online resource. However, the holder of right for these recordings did not authorize to distribute them for commercial purposes.
At the same time, the Prosecutor found that the Russian Law on copyright does not qualify Internet in legal terms, whereas the authors’ property rights are extended to distribution of copies of their works by any means. Along with that, the Prosecutor says that from judicial point of view, distribution of any works via Internet is impossible because it would be a digital transfer, whereas the current Russian legislation necessitates corporeal transfer of works only.
Besides that, the Prosecutor concluded that, distribution of works does not result in making a new copy of the work, but only creates conditions for being utilized by end consumer.
On these grounds, the Prosecutor’s Office in Moscow’s South-Western district rejected initiation of a criminal case against the Internet resource officials due to absence of corpus delicti.."
So, even tho i'm not allowed to say it, currently it's not illegal at all
I understand the reason why it's censored here by the mods tho so i'm not being awkward (sorry) but just pointing out that it exists legally in Russia right now.
*well known illegal russian website* = well known legal one, at least for now
Have to say too they've got the right idea - multiple format support, multiple bitrates, good pricing, no DRM.