Jetgroove.com Are your tracks being illegally sold online?

[Internal Error Records]

hi gang,
new stir. jetgroove.com is a start up mp3 distributor, apperantly based in moscow, selling techno mp3's. My label is up there, and i been told hydrolix and many others are aswell.

fortunetly, my label has an attorney and we are looking to sort this out with jeygroove asap.

label owners might want to take this seriously

Regards,
Gil

[Internal Error Records]

doh sorry, there is already a pthread for this.

[eyes without a face]

something tells me these guys are gonna be getting quite a few emails

[Louk]

http://www.jetgroove.com/release/750...N_A-Vinyl.html

COMPLETE AND UTTER B**TARDS NO NEED FOR IT THEY ARE RIPPING ME OFF !!!!!!!!!!!!

Louk

[jesus]

this is there host - http://www.he.net/ enough complaints should do the trick.

[jonnyspeed]

That site is really shit - only 4 Chris Liberator tracks from 2004 - think its time to get your content up in mp3 on legal sites and not worry too much about this - might wanna do a class action against them, save you all some money and but extra weight behind it.

But more the point if all this is free on Soul Seek....?

[karlo]

HE GOTS ALL MY RECORDS THERE Who the **** is he?!?!?!?!? i will have to send him few e-mail..mother ****er!!!!!!

[Heroes]

bunch of robbing cunts, this is serious shit people, ive already notified mcps, i mean do they want to **** up this scene or what, if producers cant survive financially making tracks then no music to enjoy, its a circle of cogs that we cant let get broken from knobs like this... just my opinion

[Heroes]

bunch of robbing cunts, this is serious shit people, ive already notified mcps, i mean do they want to **** up this scene or what, if producers cant survive financially making tracks then no music to enjoy, its a circle of cogs that we cant let get broken from knobs like this... just my opinion

[schlongfingers]

They aren't selling. Just email them and they will remove clips of your music, it's really simple and I've heard numerous reports of labels having their music removed VERY quickly.

Here is the email address, and a template to make it even easier

Email - legal@jetgroove.com

Template

Dear Jetgroove,

As the copyright holders, we request that you remove any information or data relating to the following Labels/Artists from your website (www.jetgroove.com) as soon as possible.

1 - My Label
2 - My Artist Name

Thanks,

Your Name

[Heroes]

nice

[Heroes]

nice

[schlongfingers]

Let us know if you have any problems, whatever your viewpoint on this, a template that works would be very useful for those labels that wish to be removed.

I can't see why that one wouldn't work but let us know if you have any difficulty.

[gunjack]

Dear Gunjack,

We bring you apologies from JetGroove for making you worry about your copyrights infringements and your music repertoire being presented on our website. We want to assure you that having started a new Online Music Download Service JetGroove pursued the objective of making your music more well-known and accessible and BY LEGAL MEANS ONLY. That means we DID NOT SELL any of your music without obtaining a proper permission (License) from you or other respective rightholders.

The experience of showing your music on our website without distributing was aimed to draw our users attention to your music, with further goal to make contacts with you on friendly terms with a perspective of mutually beneficial partnership. This project was created to promote and give as much exposure to independent record labels and artists as possible. That is exactly why we didn’t not sell your music, but only made it available for users to see, and get a feedback from them. We can let you know at any time how many of your tracks were put on hold and which ones.

All the time we were in touch with many people from different music communities knowing what was happening around JetGroove.com Download Music Service. We hoped that our service would help many customers to figure out for themselves the music they like, and would help us understand their needs in digital music. We hoped to provide listen-before-you-buy service that would help labels and artists promote their work. But despite of our good intentions, we have met a strong resistance from record labels and artists. And so, with the best wishes to our futures partners and to discredit all doubts about our legitimacy, we decided to change a way we are going to do business. From now on our database will include only information that we have license for and nothing else.

Hope this will tell you more about us than any information you’ve heard or saw before. If you find our project interesting for you and would like to know more about JetGroove and see what we can offer you, please let us know. Hope you’ll find our offer to make your music more popular through us rather reasonable and we can start mutually beneficial partnership.

Sincerely yours,

Alena Chakhnazarova
Jetgroove, LLP
Tel: + 44 0870 068 4866
Fax: +44 207 900 6597
E-mail: marketing@jetgroove.com

[gunjack]

Dear Gunjack,

We bring you apologies from JetGroove for making you worry about your copyrights infringements and your music repertoire being presented on our website. We want to assure you that having started a new Online Music Download Service JetGroove pursued the objective of making your music more well-known and accessible and BY LEGAL MEANS ONLY. That means we DID NOT SELL any of your music without obtaining a proper permission (License) from you or other respective rightholders.

The experience of showing your music on our website without distributing was aimed to draw our users attention to your music, with further goal to make contacts with you on friendly terms with a perspective of mutually beneficial partnership. This project was created to promote and give as much exposure to independent record labels and artists as possible. That is exactly why we didn’t not sell your music, but only made it available for users to see, and get a feedback from them. We can let you know at any time how many of your tracks were put on hold and which ones.

All the time we were in touch with many people from different music communities knowing what was happening around JetGroove.com Download Music Service. We hoped that our service would help many customers to figure out for themselves the music they like, and would help us understand their needs in digital music. We hoped to provide listen-before-you-buy service that would help labels and artists promote their work. But despite of our good intentions, we have met a strong resistance from record labels and artists. And so, with the best wishes to our futures partners and to discredit all doubts about our legitimacy, we decided to change a way we are going to do business. From now on our database will include only information that we have license for and nothing else.

Hope this will tell you more about us than any information you’ve heard or saw before. If you find our project interesting for you and would like to know more about JetGroove and see what we can offer you, please let us know. Hope you’ll find our offer to make your music more popular through us rather reasonable and we can start mutually beneficial partnership.

Sincerely yours,

Alena Chakhnazarova
Jetgroove, LLP
Tel: + 44 0870 068 4866
Fax: +44 207 900 6597
E-mail: marketing@jetgroove.com

[karlo]

i think i saw similar web page....playittonight.com something like that is URL!!!!!!!

[zaalmoetlos]

F O R W A R D THIS EMAIL TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN

After Kazaa, there is a new threat to artists, and it is in websites like jetgroove.com.

There is only one way to save us from this threat; through awareness.

7 steps to save the independent record industry :

I - Everybody have to be aware that the Russian based company "JetGroove", www.jetgroove.com is selling music illegally. Even though Ulukman Mamytov, JetGroove legal department's spokesman, states on their website JetGroove signed license agreements with all the labels sold on its site, this is a false information and it is mistaking the customer.



II- They are selling music downloaded from Kazaa and other P2P networks: To build up their music library of music files, they downloaded them from P2P networks and then re-encoded them.



III - JetGroove is not British, but a Russian company:
a- They are renting a British address in London at "Douglas Company Services", http://www.douglas-cs.co.uk/, to show they are legit and an English company. The address provided by Douglas Company Services is:

Regent House,
316 Beulah Hill,
London SE19 3HF,
United Kingdom
It's exactly the address of the JetGroove offices you can find on their website.
b- Their phone number in Moscow is +7 095 730 8046
c- One of their sub domain name is: ru.corp.jetgroove.com , as "ru" for "Russia"
d- Some other contacts of JetGroove: Alena Chakhnazarova, Ilya Basalaev (very English isn't it?)



IV - Record Industry Associations around the world are preparing to sue them: Yes..., why ? Just because, not only being happy about selling illegal content from small independent labels, they decided to sell music from major companies such as Madonna, Britney Spears and so-on... They are very angry. So be really careful with your music: if you feel your music is sold there illegally, first contact your label manager then your local Recording Association as soon as possible, or contact the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) http://www.ifpi.org/



V - Their website has been built by the following Russian webdesign company http://www.suponix.com which is using the same tricks as JetGroove to fool people on where they come from. They are a Russian company from Odessa, Russia, and try to show they are American.



VI - You can find more info here: http://www.ivibes.nu/index.php?article=3461
http://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread...ba7889049&
threadid=244233&perpage=20&pagenumber=1

VII - Be aware that there is a rumour of scam for credit card details.

So to help save the independent record industry make people aware of this new kind of threat, we have to

!!!!!!!!! F O R W A R D THIS EMAIL TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS WE CAN !!!!!!!!!

[schlongfingers]

I'd take a look at the Jetgroove website if I were you - they removed everything last week.

[MangaFish]

zaalmoetlos: i've only glanced through your post, but a few things stick out:

II- They are selling music downloaded from Kazaa and other P2P networks: To build up their music library of music files, they downloaded them from P2P networks and then re-encoded them.

what good would re-encoding them do? surely the sound quality is only going to be as good as the source, so if they downlaoded a naff copy from kazza then it will still be naff once re-encoded

III - JetGroove is not British, but a Russian company:
a- They are renting a British address in London at "Douglas Company Services", http://www.douglas-cs.co.uk/, to show they are legit and an English company.

lots of legit companies do this. i cant see what the big deal it. do you personally have a problem with russians?

V - Their website has been built by the following Russian webdesign company http://www.suponix.com which is using the same tricks as JetGroove to fool people on where they come from. They are a Russian company from Odessa, Russia, and try to show they are American.

i dont see how this has any relavence to the record industry

VII - Be aware that there is a rumour of scam for credit card details.

probably started by another online record store to further put of potential jetgroove clients. i cant possibly see how anyone could have spotted such a fraud this early on into jetgrooves business (especially considering they didnt even have any stock for sale)

i've read all the threads on jetgroove and to be honnest i think that its been 70% hysteria and 30% fact.

[schlongfingers]

I didn't like the anti-russian intonation either.