What is Мой мир?

I have been using it for a long time to keep in touch with my friends from ex-USSR countries. Мой мир is a part of Mail.ru – the largest free e-mail service owned by Runet since 2001, but it was launched in 1997 by Port.ru. In 2005, the number of users reached 30 million, and 25 million emails were sent every day.

“Мой мир — is a place where finally all old friends could be brought together, and where many new ones found. Apart from this, you will stay up do date and keep in touch with them, by watching their photos and videos, read their blogs, answering their questions and leave notes on their guestbook, etc” – this is how it is defined at Мой мир homepage. Basically, it is a Russian version of Facebook.

The feature I have recently discovered is you can listen to any music of your choice any time for free with no limitations, provided you are registered and signed in. You can just search for the songs, and result will show a list of all matching songs uploaded by users with a play/pause button on the side. Click play and it will play continuously one song after another.

Here is an example. I searched for “Black Eyed Peas”, the result 816 files found including currently number one hit song on BBC Radio 1’s Official Singles Chart Show – ‘Boob Boom Pow’.
Amazing! No need to download or pay for music anymore. I wonder how they deal with Copyrights.