{"id":1536,"date":"2003-07-30T05:23:59","date_gmt":"2003-07-30T19:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/30\/buymusic-ripping-off-artists\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:55:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:55:01","slug":"buymusic-ripping-off-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/30\/buymusic-ripping-off-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"BuyMusic ripping off artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13923,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.buymusic.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20140228114500\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.buymusic.com:80\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 15:47:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 22:49:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 22:49:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13924,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/jodywhitesides.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260301071935\\\/https:\\\/\\\/jodywhitesides.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 15:47:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 15:47:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13925,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/macslash.org\\\/article.pl?sid=03\\\/07\\\/29\\\/1510211&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Another good reason to avoid the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buymusic.com\/\" title=\"BuyMusic\">BuyMusic<\/a> service: apparently, through snapping up the back catalog of a very shady distributor, much of the BuyMusic catalog comes from independent artists who are not receiving any compensation for their work.<\/p>\n<p>This from recording artist <a href=\"http:\/\/jodywhitesides.com\/\" title=\"Jody Whitesides Music Web\">Jody Whitesides<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I did a search for one of my old CD&#8217;s that will be going onto iTunes and It turns out my CD was there on BuyMusic.com. As were the CD&#8217;s of several other bands that I&#8217;m friends with. All of whom were not contacted about being placed for sale there.<\/p>\n<p>  Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve deduced&#8230; BuyMusic.com (which I will refer to as BM) got their &#8220;vast&#8221; music library of 300,000 plus songs from a company called the Orchard. The Orchard is a distribution company that has consistently shafted artists by not paying them for CD&#8217;s sold nor returning unsold CD&#8217;s or cancelling contracts. So, without the express consent of what is likely lots of the Orchards catalog, BM has put it up for sale at the bargain price of \\$.79 a song.<\/p>\n<p>  So now, they can tout they&#8217;re selling tracks at \\$.79 and they can say they have a library of music of over 300,000 songs. But what they don&#8217;t tell you is that it comes from musicians\/bands that were not asked for permission, and who will likely not see a penny of any sale made through BM. By their very own site policy they are committing copyright infringement. They have done this to lure PC\/windows users to their site in hopes to sell the few major label aquired songs they do have, at a price that is much higher than Apple&#8217;s \\$.99.<\/p>\n<p>  I&#8217;m currently looking into legal means to have my music removed from their site and strongly encourage users to not browse BM&#8217;s site nor purchase from it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/macslash.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/07\/29\/1510211\" title=\"BuyMusic.com ripping off artists\">MacSlash<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BuyMusic.com (which I will refer to as BM) got their &#8220;vast&#8221; music library of 300,000 plus songs from a company called the Orchard. So, without the express consent of what is likely lots of the Orchards catalog, BM has put it up for sale at the bargain price of $.79 a song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}