You've got to applaud those wily Russians behind music download site AllofMP3. They're clearly not afraid to spit in the faces of American copyright lawyers. Shut down by the Russian government so the country could enter the World Trade Organization, AllofMP3 has reportedly continued under the new name MP3sparks.com. But now that the site's owner Denis Kvasov was ruled not guilty of copyright infringement in Russian courts, AllofMP3 is getting ballsy. The site has reopened, and although no downloads are yet available, it's promising to be back in operation soon.

SCOTT KIDDER — Continuing our international web 2.0 coverage here at Valleywag, this morning Arista Records LLC, Warner Bros. Records, Capitol Records, and UMG Recordings Inc. sued everyone's favorite Russian Web 2.0 business, AllofMP3.com. As we all know, AllofMP3.com sells DRM-free MP3s for just under $2 an album.

VISA and Mastercard may have shut off credit payments at the controversial, illegal-everywhere-but-Russia-and-possibly-in-Russia-too cheap music site AllofMP3.com (where users pay about 10 cents a song for popular, mostly American music that sure as hell isn't properly licensed).

AllofMP3, the most popular of Russia's hardly-legal cheap-music-download sites, launched another verbal attack at its enemies, this time the Visa and Mastercard companies (who recently blocked AllofMP3 from using their online payment systems, after pressure from the music industry). The company called Visa's and Mastercard's decisions "arbitrary, capricious and discriminatory," says the Register.

• AllofMP3.com loses another battle as Visa and Mastercard plan to pull out of the controversial Russian music store. As of press time, credit card payment on AllofMP3 is broken. The site may switch to an ad-based model. [BetaNews]