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London DJs use Stolen Credit Cards to buy Music

http://www.nypost.com/seven/0610200...nes__173444.htm

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A group of popular London deejays used stolen credit cards to buy their own music on iTunes in an elaborate scheme that netted about $650,000 in bogus royalties and sent the musicians skyrocketing up the "indie" charts, The Post has learned. The deejays recorded 19 compilations of music they spun at nightclubs, uploaded them on iTunes through a Brooklyn-based service and then downloaded them an astonishing 65,000 times on accounts set up with the pilfered cards, law-enforcement sources said. Along with the profits, the performers nearly made a second killing -- they caught the attention of music industry executives curious about their newfound popularity. Authorities in New York and London unmasked the group of "independent musicians" in recent months, and ring members are expected to be rounded up as early as this morning in Britain. The takedown caps an international Internet manhunt conducted by Brooklyn prosecutors inside DA Charles Hynes' office, NYPD computer crime experts and their counterparts and a London Metropolitan Police unit known as SCD-6. Britished authorities announced this morning that they had made nine arrests in connection with the scam. The scam began in August with the DJs paying an annual $30-per-album fee to the Williamsburg company Tunecore, a music distribution service, to get their albums uploaded onto iTunes. The ring then obtained thousands of stolen credit card numbers and painstakingly opened iTunes accounts with them and began downloading their albums at $10 apiece. In December, Apple, the parent company of iTunes, began to receive stop-payment orders from various credit card companies, saying accounts were established fraudulently. A month later, Apple contacted the NYPD, which enlisted the help of the Brooklyn district attorney. Investigators scoured the Internet for the origins of the downloads and ultimately determined they were made on London computers. They then matched the identities of IP computer-address owners and musicians. The thieves collected about $389,000 of the loot -- and nearly got the rest before the scam unraveled, the sources said

wonder who it was

Re: London DJs use Stolen Credit Cards to buy Music

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Originally posted by Scoops http://www.nypost.com/seven/0610200...nes__173444.htm wonder who it was

We need someone to go through statistics from that time to see who's suddenly been jumping up the charts.

beatport had this problem for a while too. Now you're limited to 3 of the same track per IP address.

I'm going to guess dubstep DJ's in this case -- i saw a few compilations of dubstep so high in the itunes charts last year i couldn't believe it

lol just lol

hahah nice!

so much crap for stealing money? couldnt they just open a visa account and charge the creditcards directly? or did they just have to have the fame too?

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Originally posted by palm so much crap for stealing money? couldnt they just open a visa account and charge the creditcards directly? or did they just have to have the fame too?

its a good long term investment IMO

I heard it was Pete Tong all by himself

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Originally posted by Guest its a good long term investment IMO

Turned out not to be such a good one.

Why aren't they giving the names? Are they "protecting their names" or some shit?

That's quite clever isn't it.

Except the part about getting caught.

gotta be that Tek DiLuxe track - 32bits.

that shit's been top on beatport for a good month now and i still don't see what the fuck is soo good about it.

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Originally posted by Zombie0729 beatport had this problem for a while too. Now you're limited to 3 of the same track per IP address. I'm going to guess dubstep DJ's in this case -- i saw a few compilations of dubstep so high in the itunes charts last year i couldn't believe it

This is interesting and could hurt their business too. More and more ISPs are using NATing (since open IP addresses are becoming limited) so if they are simply using IP banning then they could be restricting thousands of people out of some tracks...if someone else on the same NAT wants a track after it's been bought by three others. Or what if someone wants to buy a popular album or track while at work because of faster downloads. If it's a big company in a big building and more than three people by chance want that....some could be screwed. :-p

I remember years back when I'd intend to ban one user from some community, I would get emails from other users wondering why they are banned, hehe....when I learned about the whole NATing thing with ISPs...

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Originally posted by Zombie0729 beatport had this problem for a while too. Now you're limited to 3 of the same track per IP address. I'm going to guess dubstep DJ's in this case -- i saw a few compilations of dubstep so high in the itunes charts last year i couldn't believe it

Dubstep has gotten very popular past few years. Snoop dogg and little John have jumped on the bandwagon. Did u hear his take of chase and status' eastern jam?

Somehow it reminds me of Deadmau5.

But I dont see how he needs to do that anyway.

I bet those DJs made crappy music

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Originally posted by denys envy gotta be that Tek DiLuxe track - 32bits. that shit's been top on beatport for a good month now and i still don't see what the fuck is soo good about it.

+1
yeah seriously.. i find it to be really boring

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Originally posted by xIced +1 yeah seriously.. i find it to be really boring

But when people are, like, really drunk and high on drugs, it TOTALLY gets them dancing, so it MUST be good!

What an epic fail. Didn't they realize someone would figure it out.

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Originally posted by Jel Dubstep has gotten very popular past few years. Snoop dogg and little John have jumped on the bandwagon. Did u hear his take of chase and status' eastern jam?

i'm not hating on it by any means, i enjoy the genre but from my knowledge to hit the top 50 in itunes requires over 300,000 in sales. that's a lot man

I wonder if those ******s used my credit card. My card was compromised about 2 months ago and fraudulent charges were made to itunes among other companies which I immediately reported and was eventually credited for by my bank. The bank never told me the outcome, only that it was part of an ongoing investigation.

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