£200,000 amazon/tunecore/itunes scam. uk dj's arrested.

seckle · Post by **seckle** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:23 pm

speechless.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... lties.html

drokkr · Post by **drokkr** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:35 pm

bloody hell

quite clever all the same, will they be named and shamed?

seckle · Post by **seckle** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:47 pm

DROKKR wrote:bloody hell

quite clever all the same, will they be named and shamed?

all i know is, that it makes tunecore look ridiculous. how could they just watch a brand new artist do £200,000 in revenues out of nowhere, without checking it out first? it tarnishes the whole idea of using any of the mp3 aggregators.

drokkr · Post by **drokkr** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:56 pm

seckle wrote:
DROKKR wrote:bloody hell

quite clever all the same, will they be named and shamed?
all i know is, that it makes tunecore look ridiculous. how could they just watch a brand new artist do £200,000 in revenues without checking it out. it tarnishes the whole idea of using any of the mp3 aggregators.

they didn't give a shit obviously. £200,000 went to an "artist" so they made their money and weren't worried how. the conspiracy theorist in me says inside job of some sort...

seckle · Post by **seckle** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:59 pm

DROKKR wrote:
seckle wrote:
DROKKR wrote:bloody hell

quite clever all the same, will they be named and shamed?
all i know is, that it makes tunecore look ridiculous. how could they just watch a brand new artist do £200,000 in revenues without checking it out. it tarnishes the whole idea of using any of the mp3 aggregators.
they didn't give a shit obviously. £200,000 went to an "artist" so they made their money and weren't worried how. the conspiracy theorist in me says inside job of some sort...

agreed. they need some early warning system, so that stuff like this gets checked early on. if i was on tunecore, i'd want my money back today. why even use their system if its this easy to pilfer?

raffia · Post by **raffia** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:00 pm

i don't get it...why would u buy mp3's with the stolen credit cards ? what a weird idea. they nicked 1500 cards ! eh ? then again this report is in a crap newspaper lol

godflesh fiend · Post by **godflesh fiend** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:00 pm

Yeah I was reading this morning and wondering who it is???

Definately pretty sneaky stuff.

What next?!

seckle · Post by **seckle** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:04 pm

raffia wrote: then again this report is in a crap newspaper lol

yeah, i don't read daily mail. i caught this linked via another blog.

Whistla · Post by **Whistla** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:07 pm

seems like the fault of the credit card system.
if the cards are stolen they shouldnt work anymore (as long as the owner has cancelled them)
i dont think tunecore can be expected to take the rap if the artists music is there own. they cant be expected to judge the moral character of every tom dick n harry to puts a tune out, and usually the more more dodgy the artist the more they can often sell ala doherty, winehouse etc etc

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:08 pm

Smart idea

seckle · Post by **seckle** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:20 pm

DJ Whistla wrote:seems like the fault of the credit card system.
if the cards are stolen they shouldnt work anymore (as long as the owner has cancelled them)
i dont think tunecore can be expected to take the rap if the artists music is there own. they cant be expected to judge the moral character of every tom dick n harry to puts a tune out, and usually the more more dodgy the artist the more they can often sell ala doherty, winehouse etc etc

yeah man, i agree about the moral character, but if you saw brand new artist X do that much in sales, wouldn't you by default want to look into it a bit? i mean, whomever is paid to watch the spreadsheets at tunecore, needs looking into, because at £6 per uploaded song, they're making millions, and in turn providing no security in the process. i'll bet this turns out to be an inside job.

spencertron · Post by **spencertron** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:05 pm

any way to find out who?

lukki · Post by **lukki** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:12 pm

hurlingdervish · Post by **hurlingdervish** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:15 pm

probably the worst money laundering job ever. "lets clean the money by buying our own tunes!!"

drokkr · Post by **drokkr** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:25 am

seckle wrote: i'll bet this turns out to be an inside job.

see, my conspiracy theory quite acceptable now

the more i think about it and have talked about it, this pops up -

inside job.

little boh peep · Post by **little boh peep** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:41 am

Crazy.

I'm very interested to see who's behind this, and the rest of the details as they come out...

dopelabs · Post by **dopelabs** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:45 am

yea i suspect some foul play was involved =]

drokkr · Post by **drokkr** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:46 am

DopeLabs wrote:yea i suspect some foul play was involved =]

dj seizure · Post by **dj seizure** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:05 am

Yeah if anyone sees a paper that says anything about who it was do post. I'll go and buy todays daily mail and see if there was a follow up.

£200,000 amazon/tunecore/itunes scam. uk dj's arrested.

£200,000 amazon/tunecore/itunes scam. uk dj's arrested.

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