Why would 'some Russian site' take control of a soundcloud account? There's no money or purpose to doing so, makes no sense. Dan - if you're having a problem logging into SC, or getting popup screens, you've got malware on your device.
On the other hand, these foreign music website won't hesitate to copying your music and offering it for sale on their sites - with no compensation to you. If you set your SC music to 'allow download', it makes it very easy for them, but they can also 'play/record' files easily to copy them (anyone with soundcard 'record what you hear' software can do the same). I stopped putting my music on SC that is for sale elsewhere because of that (not that I think they have many sales in Asia, but why make it easy for them?). I did a search for the radio show file I have on my SC and found it on a couple of foreign sites - all 30 minutes of it!
On the other hand, these foreign music website won't hesitate to copying your music and offering it for sale on their sites - with no compensation to you. If you set your SC music to 'allow download', it makes it very easy for them, but they can also 'play/record' files easily to copy them (anyone with soundcard 'record what you hear' software can do the same). I stopped putting my music on SC that is for sale elsewhere because of that (not that I think they have many sales in Asia, but why make it easy for them?). I did a search for the radio show file I have on my SC and found it on a couple of foreign sites - all 30 minutes of it!
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Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/mikebirchmusic
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Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/mikebirchmusic
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mikebirchmusic