I'm not sure this would apply directly to anybody here, but FYI.... >Hello, all... > >This is a warning about a new website that was lauched earlier this week >called Jetgroove.com > >The site is an MP3 sales site, something like iTunes, only concentrating >mainly in electronic music. They appear to have a catalogue of thousands of >titles available from labels big & small. They claim that "all our music >content is properly licensed". > >However, according to posts that are flying around on many music mailing >lists today, none of the artists and labels who are listed on the site have >ever heard of them before the site launch. And when you try to buy anything >on the site, nothing seems to actually be available - every title I >selected went into a "Not Yet Available" section in my shopping cart. > >Several labels who have contacted Jetgroove.com have received back a form >letter which is quoted below. The gist of it is that they launched this >site with nothing actually available for download, and somehow intended to >get permission to sell releases after the fact. It's a very strange way of >doing business, and quite frankly, it reflects badly on all of the artists >and labels who are listed on their site. > >I strongly ancourage EVERYONE to spread the word about this far and wide. >If you are an artist or run a label, check to see if any of your titles are >listed, and if so, send them a complaint and request that your titles be >removed. If you are just a listener, contact them to complain about their >misleading and shady business practices. Hopefully, we can cause them >enough grief that they will either change their business model to one that >is more upfront and honest, or they will just disappear completely. > > >Greg > >----- > >Dear Sirs and Madams, > >My name is Ulukman Mamytov and I am the attorney for jetgroove.com. > >I bring you apologies from JetGroove for making you worry about your >copyrights infringements and your music repertoire being presented on our >website. I want to assure you that jetgroove.com having started a new >Online Music Download Service pursues the objective of making your music >more wellknown and accessible and ONLY BY LEGAL MEANS. > >That means we DO NOT SELL any of your music without obtaining a proper >permission (License) from you or other respective rightholders. You can >easily check this by trying to purchase any of you music. Everything that >you choose to put in your cart will have status: "Not Available For >Purchase Yet". It could only be put "ON HOLD". And we do not change that >status untill the contract is signed and your permission is granted. In >this case all of your music will be given "Allowed for Selling" status and >people who have it in their shopping carts will be able to buy it. > >The experince of showing your music on our website without distributing >aimed to draw your attention to us, with further goal to make contacts with >you on friendly terms with a perspective of mutually beneficial >partnership. We're glad to inform you that your music is getting popular >indeed through our website and we can let you know at any time how many of >your tracks were put on hold and which ones. > >However, we deeply understand your concerns and would like to assure you, >if you find our relationships impossible, we will IMMEDIATELY delete all of >your music from our music collection. > >Hope you'll find our offer to make your music more popular through us >rather reasonable and we can start that mutually beneficial partnership. > >Very Truly Yours, > >Ulukman Mamytov >Jetgroove LLP >Legal Department > > >:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Greg Clow ::: greg@stainedproductions.com >::::::::: concert & event promotions ::: http://www.stainedproductions.com >:::::: electronic music radio & reviews ::: http://www.feedbackmonitor.com >::: electronic/experimental record label ::: http://www.pieheadrecords.com >::::::::: 158 Close Ave. 2nd Floor ::: Toronto, Ontario M6K 2V5 ::: Canada > > > >------------------------ Yahoo! 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