Webbed Hand Records

A recent trend in spamming/adware insertion on the net is splogging. Foreign sites are storing large amounts of content from popular blogs, netlabels, and other sources of media, and hosting it on their pages, accompanied by ads, and apparently in some cases adware or malware. The worst thing of this is that they are using Search Engine Optimization strategies to position themselves higher on Google than the sites that they stole the content from.

The consequence of the growing popularity of Webbed Hand Records is that the works of some of our artists are showing up on sites like these, and even in some cases those sites are offering our works for sale. Naturally, attempts are being made to contact the owners of those sites to ask them to take the content down.

Presently, Internet Archive (who hosts our albums) is having some technical difficulties, and so it may be tempting for people to look for alternate sites to download from. Please don’t download from any of those flashy sites with “mp3″ as part of the domain name, and definitely don’t let anyone charge you for the privilege. There is a chance you will get a serving of malware along with your music.

We’re looking into ways to have the files available from this site when IA is down, and we’ll announce any solutions we come up with, but in the meantime, if you need a Webbed Hand fix, we have nearly all of the albums uploaded to last.fm (searchable by artist, album, or label).