Members Jeff Leites Posted August 21, 2011 Members Share Posted August 21, 2011 I was originally going to ask how my recordings found their way onto web pages that were unknown to me, but I found the answer myself There are search engines on the web that look for mp3 files hosted at other sites, and present them on their own page. I was Goggling myself, as I sometimes do, and I found something strange. Some of my recordings were showing up on a multitude of web sites like this one: http://mp3bear.com/jeff-leites-miserlou I didn't know how I felt about it at first, but now I think I kind of feel like a celebrity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mats Nermark Posted August 21, 2011 Members Share Posted August 21, 2011 Yes, same thing has happened to me.I would rather it didn't as I want to have maximum traffic to my own site where I keep my backing tracks for download in case I one day want to attract sponsors or advertisers where visitors/traffic is of major concern. Cheers, Mats N Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Surrealistic Posted August 21, 2011 Members Share Posted August 21, 2011 Yep same here, though mostly with my older stuff for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted August 21, 2011 Members Share Posted August 21, 2011 You can find my stuff on the strangest sites... I really wonder how many people are actually visiting these places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted August 21, 2011 Members Share Posted August 21, 2011 I was originally going to ask how my recordings found their way onto web pages that were unknown to me, but I found the answer myself There are search engines on the web that look for mp3 files hosted at other sites, and present them on their own page. I was Goggling myself, as I sometimes do, and I found something strange. Some of my recordings were showing up on a multitude of web sites like this one: http://mp3bear.com/jeff-leites-miserlou I didn't know how I felt about it at first, but now I think I kind of feel like a celebrity Yeah. I have the impromptu (read absurdly sloppy) acoustic recordings from my song blog stored on the Internet Archive (archive.org) and the cheezy, mostly offshore "free mp3" sites are all over that like flies on... honey. (I know. Flies aren't attracted to honey.) So I've been finding that stuff when I google myself for years now. One word of warning though... These sites may not be run by bad guys -- but they are mostly robotic operations and may not have proper security maintenance -- and so may well have been 'hacked' and be serving up malware. I know because I recently went to such a site I'd never seen listed before and had an unsuccessful drive by attack launched on me. The unwanted, unrequested download delivered the payload (or part of it) to my hard drive but it didnt't install. When I scanned using Malwarebytes Free's 'on-demand' scanning (I don't use background anti-malware because it takes far too much resources for the minimal protection it offers -- but I keep my copy of XP pretty scrupulously up to date) I found and nuked the uninstalled payload. It as a valuable lesson in the perils of idle curiosity. If the same thing happens to you on your properly patched Windows or Mac machine, don't panic. Do abort the process in an orderly manner if possible. And it would likely be a good time after such an attempted attack to do a scan using one of the free legit online scanners, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware's 'standalone' scanner, or other up-to-date, legit anti-malware software. The reason I keep saying legit, of course, is because MacDefender, WinDefender, and other 'fake anti-virus' programs are quite devious about disguising their intent. (And, by the way, 'anti-virus' is an almost antiquated term. Virtually none of the contemporary threats are old-time viruses. Your Mac or Vista/Win7 machine may be immune to viruses, but it's really moot, since most threats are so-called socially engineered threats, sometimes coupled with pop-ups and occasionally drive-by downloads, which have been used against both platforms in recent months.) And if you're not up-to-date on your OS or software updates, now would be a good time to do so. Also, I've found that having a copy of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware already installed on my hard drive can be handy -- since, if you do manage to get one these things installed, one of the first things it will try to do is block internet access to anti-malware sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kurdy Posted August 21, 2011 Members Share Posted August 21, 2011 Oh my god--I just found a site called DiscArk that hosts a page for an old CD I made that was recorded on a four-track back when I was like, 18. This is very surprising, since the CD has no distribution, and the remaning hundreds of copies have long been relegated to a far corner of my closet. This site has included the cheesy high school yearbook-esque photo I took for the cover, the track listing, the "About Me" bio I wrote for Myspace. Makes me look like an established artist. All for a crappy CD, best forgotten, that I probably should've never made in the first place. How did they even get that? Is there a way to get them to take it down? EDIT: I contacted them and requested that they take down the page. Hopefully they'll oblige. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bookumdano2 Posted August 21, 2011 Members Share Posted August 21, 2011 ............"How did they even get that? Is there a way to get them to take it down? EDIT: I contacted them and requested that they take down the page. Hopefully they'll oblige........." Welcome to planet earth. Where one site takes down your stuff when asked... six interested guys who liked it and grabbed the music earlier say "what happened to that stuff they took down"... to which said six guys then put up their copies that they downloaded from site #1. Which is now on six sites. And on it goes into the meelions. It's like rabbits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted August 21, 2011 Members Share Posted August 21, 2011 Oh my god--I just found a site called DiscArk that hosts a page for an old CD I made that was recorded on a four-track back when I was like, 18. This is very surprising, since the CD has no distribution, and the remaning hundreds of copies have long been relegated to a far corner of my closet. This site has included the cheesy high school yearbook-esque photo I took for the cover, the track listing, the "About Me" bio I wrote for Myspace. Makes me look like an established artist. All for a crappy CD, best forgotten, that I probably should've never made in the first place. How did they even get that? Is there a way to get them to take it down?EDIT: I contacted them and requested that they take down the page. Hopefully they'll oblige.That's interesting. In my experience, it's very rare to find stuff on such a site that hasn't appeared (or doesn't still) on some free mp3 site. Pretty much they tend to go for low hanging fruit, like stuff that's been put on archive.org (the Internet Archive) or been available for free download someplace easy to find/spider. It's pretty much all robotic. I suspect that someone must have ripped the CD and put it up somewhere and that that was then found by a 'free mp3' site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kurdy Posted August 21, 2011 Members Share Posted August 21, 2011 That's interesting. In my experience, it's very rare to find stuff on such a site that hasn't appeared (or doesn't still) on some free mp3 site. Pretty much they tend to go for low hanging fruit, like stuff that's been put on archive.org (the Internet Archive) or been available for free download someplace easy to find/spider. It's pretty much all robotic. I suspect that someone must have ripped the CD and put it up somewhere and that that was then found by a 'free mp3' site. Actually, it didn't have any actual music clips. It was only information about the CD, cover photo, my old bio from Myspace, year, track listing. No music. Thank god--I wouldn't want my presence on the web, however small it is, to be represented by a bunch of horrible 4-track recordings I did when I was a teenager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted August 22, 2011 Members Share Posted August 22, 2011 I googled Philbo King and was pleased to find almost 2 pages of links to various stuff I've posted or gig listings, all links legitimate... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members techristian Posted August 22, 2011 Members Share Posted August 22, 2011 I think that a few of those websites grabbed everything I had up 10 years ago...full songs! Here below is a current list of websites that either link directly to one of my mp3s or use the META TAGS to sell cars, product or whatever. IOW you click a link and end up at a car website. Check at the links below to see if YOUR STUFF is there !! http://abmp3.com/ http://www.findthatfile.com/ http://mp3oz.us/ http://beemp3.com/ http://www.general-files.com LEADS TO http://nitrodownloads.net http://mp3oz.org/ http://tube.7s-b.com/ If they were leading to my webpage, then I might be able to generate revenue from CLICKS, or actually sell CDs, but because they link directly to my mp3s no one ever knows anything about me or my music ! Besides that most of these websites require MEMBERSHIP so they compile a huge database of email addresses. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veracohr Posted August 22, 2011 Members Share Posted August 22, 2011 I know that most of the bandwidth my website sees is the audio files being downloaded to Chinese IP addresses, and I've seen some odd Chinese and Russian sites offering to sell music I make available for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted August 23, 2011 Members Share Posted August 23, 2011 I googled myself and all that came back was porn. I had a funny mustache then. No really just kidding, but after reading this thread I'm so glad I did my early clumsy learning/beginning crap on tape and that's where it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kotch Posted August 23, 2011 Members Share Posted August 23, 2011 Check at the links below to see if YOUR STUFF is there !!http://abmp3.com/ http://www.findthatfile.com/http://mp3oz.us/http://beemp3.com/http://www.general-files.com LEADS TO http://nitrodownloads.nethttp://mp3oz.org/http://tube.7s-b.com/ Whoah. I just found one of mine on there. It's just a broken link, though, so I'm not too worried. Anyone who direct-links to one of my songs on any of the file hosting services I use is wasting their time, because those get changed around quite a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted August 23, 2011 Members Share Posted August 23, 2011 Here and here are links to an album for a band (Daily Planet) that I mixed FOH for in the late '70's. I should call the drummer; IIRC he told me he has several hundred copies still in his garage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted August 23, 2011 Members Share Posted August 23, 2011 It's strange music, probably shouldn't be surprised if it were to show up at strange web sites. Really though, I've got quite a presence on the web it seems. Mostly it looks ok to me. Something I just discovered however, there is a jazz player/instructor out there with my same name which is very rare. All my results are probably not doing his career any good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members yump Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 lol, i just googd my music name and found a band from the uk! also had 2 other names get picked up from the past, on my space. names that i thought were safe. no music tho. i don't know if i should be insulted or not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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