Music-Bazaar.com is hosted in Russia. Last night, an artist emailed us after finding his Bandcamp albums being sold on the site without authorization (he discovered this through a Google Alert). His distributor, AWAL, confirmed they hadn’t distributed anything to Music-Bazaar.
U2 and their label, Universal Music Group, might also have a problem with this:
Prince might find this problematic:
The Black Keys probably didn’t endorse these bargain basement deals…
Music-Bazaar has not responded to our inquiry (though they did request that I fill up my pre-paid account).
Written while listening to araabMUZIK on Beats.
If music cost that price I would cancel my subscription service.
Nobody would be able to make music anymore.
Not if everyone who pay promise to buy roughly 6x the amount of music they normally do.
Buying music in bulk at a discount would be an interesting music sales model.
This is not a true statement. People who want to make music will always be able to make music. While artists in the past have made millions, it is only necessary to make a sustainable living if current-day artists want to live their craft.
That is getting harder.
really? for profit internet piracy is news? seriously?
Actually, the “for-profit” part of piracy is almost always conveniently left out of the pro-piracy propaganda.
i have zero sympathy and have lost all respect for the majors and their subsidiaries and all their employees…
The only they will be able to save face and regain any respect and sympathy is if they provide me with a SETTLEMENT for all their illegal and unlawful actions, their extortion and their exploitation, their profit, humiliation, defamation of character etc. etc. etc.
I am willing to expunge and sweep it all under the rug and remove myself from the continent if need be.
My hands are about as clean as anyones hands can be. Run it up every ladder and chain and hole and pyramid and whatever needs to happen to initiate this settlement, and make it happen soon!
This is the only option left…
Thanks for your time,.
Justin Mayer
Are you the Justin Mayer with the iTunes album Dirty Pop?? If so, I can almost guarantee you no one owes you any money for anything.
Well, since it is a .com domain, the US authorities can take it away from this mafia business in around a week or so.
So, if you care about this, contact the FBI, make some noise, write some posts online. Don’t just wait for something to happen.
Hey Paul, have a look at this:
IP address: 217.23.143.156
Host name: music-bazaar.com
DNS servers
ns1.dnsmadeeasy.com [208.80.124.2]
dns1.yandex.net [213.180.204.213]
dns2.yandex.net [93.158.134.213]
How about you ask dnsmadeeasy.com for a comment? They are a US company.
http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/
Funny, because I thought that’s what the RIAA should be doing…
Gd’damn right.
Interesting.
After a random search, found one of the songs we have in our digital distribution catalog on this “compilation”:
Will try a DMCA notice / anti-piracy solution to see if it can be taken down.
DMCA issued on 24/10/2014
This site exists thanks to dnsmadeeasy.com and yandex.com
If noone dares to ask those two companies why they support piracy, then the discussion is pointless.
Follow the money, as Scotland Yard loves to say.
Last night, an artist emailed us after finding his Bandcamp albums being sold on the site without authorization
This “artist” sells nothing on Bandcamp and cries about a Russian site? 🙂
Written while listening to araabMUZIK on Beats.
Fvck Islam!
I thought the Russkies were cracking down on stuff like this
“Written while listening to araabMUZIK on Beats”
You decimate Dre on this blog, yet you’re listening to Beats?
It’s a valid question. Deciding not to use a platform just because I have disagreements with the founders of that platform makes it difficult for me to truly understand the space. Yes, Dr. Dre has a history of extreme violence against women, and I believe those issues need to be addressed by Apple. But deciding to just skip using a platform he helped create (and is now owned by Apple) would just make me ill-informed.
The same is true for Grooveshark. They aggressively litigated against Digital Music News; I have serious issues with their ethics. But I have a Grooveshark account.
…and the streisand effect just kicked in. I didn’t even know about them site.
What a surprise! And Russia was always such a law-abiding place!
This is actually legal or a legal gray area (but what isn’t) in Russia. The government-operated PRO over there will sell you a statutory license to sell all the world’s music. Presumably you can get money the PRO collects somehow (lol).
But PROs will collect only songwriting royalties – what about the recording/ phonographic rights? Surely owners of masters can stop anyone from selling their recordings?
No, hell no. We are talking about Russia here.
Who cares it’s all on PirateBay for nothing.
Yaaaaar haaar!
There was a law proposed that would have shut down sites like this and block them in the US called Stop Online Piracy Act but then google realized they might not be able to make as much revenue from placing ads on highly trafficked international piracy sites so they got everybody to agree to blackout the Internet for a day and say that the law would do things that it actually couldn’t. But how many people who were howling about sopa actually read the bill or just trusted google to be right?
Distorting facts and using propaganda is still ok under the dont be evil credo apparently
Meanwhile sites like this still flourish.
You’re so right. Google’s role in stopping SOPA/ PIPA must be well documented but can we really prove that Google turns a blind eye on piracy for its own profit? We all know it’s probably true, but can anyone really prove it?
Here’s a notice from Jamendo from April of 2013. Music Bazaar is definitely not authorized.
“Please be aware that there is no partnership between Jamendo PRO and that website. If you haven’t personally agreed to the distribution or sale of your works through that website, it is most likely an act of copyright infringement.”
Music Bazaar is a great site, I use it regularly, and recommend it. In addition to the commercial stuff, it has a lot of difficult to find music.
Just happened to me and is still an issue… What do we do as musicians to stop the sale of our music unlawfully?
MY PUBLISHER TUNECORE USA JUST MENTION TO ME THEY CAN DO NOTHING AND ANY REVENUE FROM MY MUSIC FROM THIS BAZAR SCAM WILL NOT BE COLLECTED BY THEM .ALL THIS STARTED WHEN I STARTED PUBLISHING MY WORK WITH TUNECORE 3 YEARS AGO .IT CAN BE A TUNE CORE INSIDER HAVING A DEAL THERE …SURPRISED !!! I AM NOT SO AND AS SOME MENTIONS THE WAY FORWARD IS TO GET IN TOUCH WITH THE FBI BECAUSE I HAVE SOME LINK TO BELIEVE THIS.WHO I AM..I AM TOFMELON AND I DO NOT SELL A FORTUNE BUT I SELL AND I DO NOT LIKE INTELLECTUAL THIEVES .ITS LIKE YOU WORK TO PAID OTHER PEOPLES LIVING AND YOU GET NOTHING.