Anyone can download your tunes from soundcloud!

[Assassin]

All they need is a bit of source code knowledge.

My mate has just shown me.

[3za]

Is it the original file, or the 128 SC streams?

[jaimelee]

Not new news I'm afraid, all depends on who is that desperate to obtain your music I guess..

@3za- It's the original uploaded file they can get.

[legend4ry]

Hahahaha

I just worked it out!

Thats deep .

Luckily, all my commerical releases get boring "THIS TRACK IS A SAMPLER" over them.

[Assassin]

I'm assuming it can't be stopped.

[legend4ry]

It can, if Soundcloud code their flash player differently.

[jaimelee]

Hopefully, but sites like Youtube do extensive work on it day by day.
(Everyone uses third party apps on their browser which the sites can block)
About time SC started on it maybe, or we'll just have to start adding "Example" clips and hiding everything else.

[legend4ry]

Indeed, its scary stuff!

and the fact its really fucking easy to do... I am going to make this really small so dirty pirates can't see it as easy!

[abZ]

Dang. I'd kinda like to know how it's done so I can bitch to soundcloud about it. I pay for it for fucks sake, that's unacceptable. Not even sure it should have been brought up here either. Probably some punks trying to work it out after reading this but I'm glad I know.

[3za]

SCRAPED

[jaimelee]

It would be difficult to trace people doing it due to the file is downloading from the same source it streams from.
They have to improve their own streaming code.
Costing many people alot of money collectively.

[deadly_habit]

hide yo dubs, hide yo wife
there's a tune thief on soundcloud tonight

[Sexual_Chocolate]

Luckily, all my commerical releases get boring "THIS TRACK IS A SAMPLER" over them.

yup yup yup. atleast with this type of security, you know noones gonna go and try play em out, and if they do they look like dickheads!

[legend4ry]

Doesn't soundcloud track people whos downloaded your tracks if you pay for it.. Abz?

[stompzi]

If it is indeed downloading the original, non-transcoded version, then that is ridiculous and should not be able to happen.

Doesn't surprise me though, it's not even the dumbest security fail of the year.

[legend4ry]

Can I just say.....Unless you know your way around sourcecode I very much doubt you'll be able to work this out very easily.. Its not THAT bad security but its possible...Just like it used to be possible to download off youtube with notepad and knowing what code to edit..

[abZ]

Doesn't soundcloud track people whos downloaded your tracks if you pay for it.. Abz?

I am not sure. I don't have any downloadable on teh Savory account. Or at least it's not set to download

[jaimelee]

Yeah but there are a huge number of programs you can get that does all the work for you now.
The kids can do it too.

[3za]

I just did a little test with this, and DL one of my own songs. One good thing is it now shows up it has had one download, but is it possible to trace how did this?

Scrap that post I just found out I was doing something you can do to get your own track.

[stompzi]

Can I just say.....Unless you know your way around sourcecode I very much doubt you'll be able to work this out very easily.. Its not THAT bad security but its possible...Just like it used to be possible to download off youtube with notepad and knowing what code to edit..

Eh, it doesn't matter how hard it is, somebody will release a tool to make it easy for the masses.

And it's not like it's difficult to secure this, so I'm still calling it a Soundcloud fail. (Again assuming it's true, and it's not the transcoded version)