R.I.P. Doru Malaia???

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Randor wrote:I can't confirm either, pretty opposite :(

http://trance.nu/v3/forums/viewtopic.ph ... c&start=75
This 'Donkey' guy in the link posted seems to be the predominant shit-stirrer about this, and just about everything he says smacks of misinformation...

If you actually beleieve this shit, then consider some of this:

He ('Donkey') posted:
I don't think contacing "Doru" user name's ISP will achieve much,There is obvioulsy someone in Romania that phsyically posts out in my opinion stolen samples via the CD/DVD format, and probably posts from Romania on the interent.
Firstly there's no actual proof that these are stolen; there only seems to be one person who's making that claim, and its him.

Secondly, part of his 'proof' that this is supposed to be a 'scam' because someone in Romania is sending out DVDs? How bizarre is that?
The reason I say stolen is because I actually recognise some of the one hit drums on the CD's/and/also it is very easy to download drum one hit samples and pass them off as your own
How come in all the time that Doru has been distributing samples, no-one has ever made that claim before now? And why is it that if two samples are the same, then its automatically Doru that copied, rather than the other way around?
And where's the proof? Because this one guy says it?
- as this person clearly has done here to solicit money from people.
No its not 'clear' just because one person claims its clear without any proof whatsoever.
Jason Falk , whom to www.dorumalaia.com is owned by could be this person, who is a drummer in a band in America funnily enough called Jason Falk.....his photo is here:
Indeed. Doru publically told people here that he has lost ownership of dorumalaia.com. One of KVRs memebers, Mahtazz helped him register the current site, which is dorumalia2.com.
And dorumalaia2.com is owned by one Dor Malaia, in Galati, Romania.

He has created an imaginary on line persona called Doru, who is always on the edge of death and saying he does things for free all the time, whilst having a credible online CV stating that he is a director of Romanian music conventions, and writes music scores etc etc, the reason he chose to create a romanian imaginary character was quite simply not many people can readily veryify the credentials of this made up musician.
There's not a shred of proof of any of this assertion, except for the fact that Jason Falk owns Doru's old domain.

And why exactly would someone who could create an 'imaginary on line persona' forget to hide their own details on the original domain, make it publically know that they had 'lost' that old domain, need someone else to help them, but register the new version in the right fake name?

Just a little bit far-fetched that someone would go to those lengths to give themselves away, huh?
Kagi.com (his credit/transaction merchant does not require verification of its merchants (similar to western union payment system)
Says who? Anyone here think a merchant system will let you take credit card payments under a false name?
if "doru"/Jason Falk? had used paypal to transact he would have had to be verified by them after he transacted over £500 - ie paypal make you prove who you are -+ buyers would have been able to see his real USA name and address....with Kagi paymentsnone of this is required.
Except that there's proof of someone in Romania sending out the CDs (And hey, since there's someone sending them from Romania, why make up a fake name anyway?) and proof of a Doru Malaia in Romania owning www.dorumalai2.com

So why not use this Doru Malia in Romania for Paypal too?
I read on reasonstation when doru started to sell his cds in the first month he sold over 1000 sample CD's @ $29 USD = $29,000 USD.
based on free confidence tricking methods via free advertising on reasonstation and sympathy votes (since 1998).
According to his own posts, Doru's cancer was diagnosed in January 2005. Ive seen his posts for longer than that and I dont remember him mentioning it, or his health, until relatively recently. T

Does anyone have anything of proof that he was claiming this for 'sympathy votes' at all between 1998 and 2005?

Its kind of odd that this guy is claiming that Doru was indulging in 'confidence tricking methods' on Reasonstation in 1998, when reasonstation.net wasnt actually registered until 2000.
I would imagine he has made over $250,000 USD from this whole confidence trick/scam.
IN other words 'lets make up arbitrary some numbers to prove how heinous this imagined crime is'.
It is tricky to prove it is Jason Falk who actually did this.
And yet the fact that one Jason Falk has Doru's old domain registered is enough to serve as 'proof' for this guy!
I imagine it is him, as he quickly registered www.dorumalai2.com after he realised his name and address was freely avaialble on the "who is" database.
As stated, our own Mahtazz registered that, and it is registered to a Romanian named Doru Malaia with a Romanian address...
On DM2.com he gave the romanian address of the guy he got to post CDs out/post messages on forums.
Erm, right. So thats an admission that there's a Romanian sending out the CDs. And it can be seen that the site is registered to Doru Malaia, at a Romanian address.

But we're meant to beleiev that it isnt really Doru, just some other Romanian guy. And that this other Romanian guy sends out the CDs and DVDs, but they're not made by him, they're made by some guy in the US.

And the proof of all that is supposed to be that Doru's old site is now registered in the name of someone else, just like Doru told us all had happened. Erm right. Except it was the non-Doru Romanian guy, pretending to be Doru.

And all of this was done so we would buy Doru's CD's out of sympathy. Except that most of us bought them before that. And now the guy has faked his way out of his business, by claiming to be dead.

And the 'fake' Doru was that ripping us all of by not really being ill or Doru at all just coincidentally happened to be so concerned about customer service that he was sent two or three DVDs to people whose copies were badly duplicated or faulty.

Erm....
still the IP on" who is" records of the registrant is that of an american/not romanian.
Just for the record, the IP address in a whois registration has nothing to do with the 'home' IP address of the registrant. Several of my sites are hosted and registered with US companies. The whois info howvere, does not actually return a (constantly changing) Virgin-allocated dynamic IP address....
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Sheesh, of all the people who could've died.

It had to be some guy who did nothing but give his time and effort freely to an open community.

Figures.

Yeah I know, nothing's confirmed, I'm just being cynical in advance so I don't have to remember to be later.

Reminds me of Dr. Gamewiz, a guy who provided a huge free community for console gamers on AOL back in the mid ninties. After being kicked off of AOL (competing sponsored services wanted exclusivity), he died of cancer several years later.

=(.

I don't know if there's anyone whose been making music for a while who doesn't have at least a few DM_ samples in their collection. I know I have tons. The effect this guy's had on the music production community in general will live on far beyond his lifespan, regardless of if he dies now of when he's 100.
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Whomever was accepting payment for Doru's samples was a decent, kind and honest person - and this was right up until december which was my last dealing with him personally.

Heres a story:

I ordered the 230 pack from him, had a few bad samples on it, let him know that if i could just get them by download or whatever it would be very decent and if not, not to concern himself with it as it was certainly not important enough for him to give 2 thoughts about given his current situation. He absolutely insisted that he send out another one, so I then purchased the package again so he wouldn't be out the postage cost and to consider any left over a christmas gift. He then sent his other library as a gift in return that I didn't ask for.

He will be a great loss to the community.

steve

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whyterabbyt wrote:
still the IP on" who is" records of the registrant is that of an american/not romanian.
Just for the record, the IP address in a whois registration has nothing to do with the 'home' IP address of the registrant. Several of my sites are hosted and registered with US companies. The whois info howvere, does not actually return a (constantly changing) Virgin-allocated dynamic IP address....
www.dorumalaia2.com domain was registered by me, but Doru has the files with Freewebs redirected to dorumalaia2.com

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mahtazz wrote:www.dorumalaia2.com domain was registered by me, but Doru has the files with Freewebs redirected to dorumalaia2.com
Fancy correcting the guy on the trance.nu forum who claims 'Jason Falk' registered dorumalai2.com ??
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"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."

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Randor wrote:I can't confirm either, pretty opposite :(

http://trance.nu/v3/forums/viewtopic.ph ... c&start=75
That thread is sad example of how some people will fall all over themselves trying to convince themselves of the worst about someone else. One of the more noteworthy examples was the self-appointed linguistics expert who concluded that Doru had to be a fake because he spelled a few medical terms correctly. What makes that person's conclusion all the more pathetic is that one of the words he cites as being spelled correctly is in fact mispelled.

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whyterabbyt wrote:
mahtazz wrote:www.dorumalaia2.com domain was registered by me, but Doru has the files with Freewebs redirected to dorumalaia2.com
Fancy correcting the guy on the trance.nu forum who claims 'Jason Falk' registered dorumalai2.com ??
As I know, dorumalaia.com was parked, that's because Doru did ask me to register dorumalaia2.com

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cptgone wrote:
7thsense wrote:did you know him personally?
I don't. I know him from what he posted here, and from a few mails. I bought his samples, they arrived very fast, but one disk was unreadable. Doru sent another one straight away, and didn't even want to accept my offer of paying the sending cost for the new disk. From what I've seen at KVR, he always takes care of customers, no matter the cost and effort. He's good people. A man of principle, I reckon.
Same here. The "ethnic percussion" sample-DVD was unreadable, he sent another straight away, didn't accept that I'd pay for the costs. He sent very friendly mails.

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cptgone wrote: and who might you be? this, your first post, is a vague, insinuative attack at a man who is widely respected here. Throwing mud won't do, make a statement or begone.

The link above is a disgrace. It doesn't prove anything, it's just a load of wild accusations. The only 'proof' they mention (about Doru's nationality) is proof of their own ignorance only.

You should be ashamed of yourself.
I'm not shamed, why should I? Respected man Doru was. Just seeking whether this rumour had anything to do with the reality or not.

Link doesn't prove anything neither posts shown here, atm fact is for me this appears to be one hell of a nice marketing campaign, even admit person in Romania cares about musicians and has been really great person.

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My name is Daniel Sprianu , Doru Malaia"s friend. In January 2005 after more investigations I found out
than my friend suffers from lungs cancer and doctors gave him only a year to live.My friend did everything
that a man can do to live better but worked on his projects.At 10.02.2006 my friend passed away(died).Just eleven hours before dying he paralyzed and he wasn"t able to speak anymore.Altough little time before dying he told me to take over his buisness(we didn"t expect him to die so fast) .I'm sorry for this,,,, . You can buy his product to mail"s
wife Cristina Malaia : malaiacristina@walla.com , cristinamalaia@emailaccount.com , dansprianu@emailaccount.com.
I work now to the last Dorumalaia"s project and i send you brothers musicians the link for download this.
Excuse me for my very bad english.
With respect for all musicians,users,mans.
Daniel Sprianu

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What the hell's going on here..?
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Sickle wrote:What the hell's going on here..?
What do you mean?
Doru is no longer with us.
I figured this out even before his friend popped up.

R.I.P. Doru

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:(
Mizutaphile.

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Rest in peace, Doru. You were the best example of a truly honest musician and businessman I've ever seen.
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Daniel, thank you for letting us know. I'm very sorry your friend Doru is gone. He was one of the good guys. We will miss him.

I use the Superdrums 8000 and 230 Ethnic Percussion sample libraries you and Doru (and Bogdan?) made. It's very good work.

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