Thank you for your support.
I will gladly respond to the baseless aspersions regarding my motivations. I am not, repeat--am not--a competitor to Qtrax. Qtrax has a track record of copying others ideas. Klepto has never had an original thought. He tried to copy me and then Spiral Frog. I simply do not have a dog in the digital music service fight and do not see having one anytime in the future. If you read my column this week (for all of you believers, it was picked up by PaidContent and ATD and was the most read post on PaidContent for the week) I am sad to say that there is no longer any opportunity in the space. The table has been set.
My real motivation? It's simple. I honestly feel that bad actors should be exposed. That's it. So you can rant and rave about me all you like. Frankly, calling me names and insulting me only encourages me. I happen to like it. Because when that happens I know that I have hit a nerve by just speaking the truth.
I'm not worried at all about Qtrax. It is not a player and never will be. And to think that Apple was so scared of them that they torpedoed the famed MIDEM launch is not only insulting to Apple but I'm sure a notion created by Klepto to give himself much needed importance. It wasn't true then and it's not true now. That, my friends. is a fact.
The fact is that here you have a CEO of a publicly traded company who is completely unresponsive to shareholders. Do you think that a real CEO of a real company could get away with that? Klepto doesn't even post his paranoid rants any longer. Though I must admit that I miss them. They gave me much reading enjoyment. Hopefully after reading this post, he'll emerge with a new post. That should be more baloney about the so-called betas. It's all a joke. BTW, how can you operate a music service in places like India with no local repertoire--or even without the native language? The answer is you can't. Qtrax has only a handful of old useless catalog tracks available for download in their "beta" countries. I can't wait to see them try to launch in South America--in English!
Come on. People can't be that stupid. Or can they?
