Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Increasing Legal Costs, Please Upgrade – Personal Message From MP3tunes CEO

Another Cry from the Music scene.
“Dear MP3tunes Customer,
Let me start by saying that as the CEO of MP3tunes I appreciate your support over the last few years. Your suggestions and patience have helped us build the Locker system we have today. We just launchedAutoSync that makes managing your music collection easier than ever.
As you may be aware, the major record label EMI has sued MP3tunes, claiming our service is illegal. You can read about the case here. Much is at stake — if you don’t have the right to store your own music online then you won’t have the right to store ebooks, videos and other digital products as well. The notion of ownership in the 21st century will evaporate. The idea of ownership is important to me and I want to make sure I have that right and my kids do too.
I would like to ask for your assistance in our battle for personal music ownership. We need your help because we are a small, 15-person company battling an international giant. They would like to make us spend all of our money paying legal bills. Here’s what you can do to help:
1) Please upgrade to a Premium account. This week MP3tunes is launching 3 service levels. I hope you will consider signing up for one of the paid levels. This will not only help us pay for the costs of our service (machines, storage and bandwidth) but a portion will go to cover our legal costs in our case with EMI.
2) If you have a chance to talk publicly about our cause on your blog, with friends, reporters or even EMI personnel please do so. MP3tunes is working hard to design a secure personal music service. We don’t promote sharing of music in any manner. We want people to legally acquire their music. But once they do, we think it’s important that you be able to use it how you want for your personal use. The AmazonMP3 store says: “You may copy, store, transfer and burn the Digital Content only for your personal, non-commercial, entertainment use.” and this is what MP3tunes allows you to do.
You have my commitment that I’ll continually battle for your right to store your music online and listen to it anywhere on any device. I hope you’ll consider helping MP3tunes in our battle. Thanks.
– Michael Robertson
CEO
MP3tunes.com”

Friday, April 11, 2008

Place Website on top of Google, Yahoo and MSN…

This is the second time an existing client has come to me this month and asked more information on this company. Here is the email they get.
  —–Original Message—–
From: Robert Palmer [mailto:order@onlinebannerads.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:00 AM
To: xxx
Subject: Place Website on top of Google, Yahoo and MSN…
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robert@OnlineBannerAds.net
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Sounds great, right? Not so… I dug up some information about this company and business model.
Exactly what I told my first client “It’s nothing but spyware/adware.
Looking at the search results of the company’s name it looks like they are using the techniques of “Online Reputation Management”  allowing only positive search results on the first couple of pages. See all the article sites and PR self promotion. It’s also a new domain “Creation Date: 07-sep-2007

Google – No Results Found for – !

Hey, this is something you don’t see everyday.