Last fall, I mentioned a great new web site, Fight Cloud, and their innovative idea to promote new music by offering the CDs for "free" and giving the artists a 50% share in the sales. I was quite disappointed when I received this in my email today:
To all FightCloud Newsletter Subscribers,
My partner Charles and I have decided to shut down FightCloud.com, the free music website.
We wanted to give FightCloud newletter subscribers first notice.
There are many reasons why we have decided to do this. The biggest reason for closing FightCloud is due to the millions of people stealing music. It seems that the five major record companies can't control the illegal distribution of music over the internet and the courts don't seem to be in any rush to stop the stealing either.
As long as the stealing of copywritten music continues, FightCloud finds it ludacrous to continue doing business in this area of the entertainment industry.
For those of you who don't realize the magnatude of what is happening on the net, let me give you a quick overview.
There are two major programs/companies that help you steal music, software and movies. Those two programs are named Morpheus and Kazaa. I can log on to Kazaa at any given moment of the day or night and there are over 4 million people trading over 800 million files.
The lunatics definitely are running the asylum. You can get any song, any program, or any movie that your heart desires and it's all free for the taking.
When Charles and I got ready to launch FightCloud we had predicted the demise of Napster. We were right and we had a great launch.
Last year we predicted the fall of record labels so we sent out a press release titled ''The End Of Record Labels As We Know It'' and we were right again.
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