from R Connelly
to
versionist7@gmail.com
date Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:43 PM
subject My last words
mailed-by gmail.com
hide details 12:43 PM (7 minutes ago)
Steve
I retracted my offer at the close of day yesterday. You took too long and I expected another delusional response from you. This one takes the cake. You are trying to profit off the database of tracks that are not in your ownership. This is in direct violation of your community's trust and agreement.
I made you a generous offer. I considered it a consolation prize for your experience in reggae music. I warned you on the phone your first day of business if you didn't respect the culture and tradition of reggae and heed my warning it would be your undoing. You were an irresponsible absentee owner of a very valuable site for one year. At the end of one year's time you had destroyed that very site to the current state it's in now. A complete mockery of over one years hardwork on my part as a developer and 4 years of involvement as an Artist.
You have absolutely no right to sell the value of those tracks and forum postings that you are going to destroy. I didn't want your site. I was trying to provide a service to the community that you dismantled and I have given a new home. This is exactly the kind of foul play along with silencing your critics that I brought up on Mar 17, 2008. You said I was right and that you needed to think about what you were doing. You thanked me. I thought you may have realized how much this was going to cost you when less than 7 days later my site had more members signed up and more music streamed then your site.
ReggaeDubwise.com is currently streaming about 7 times the songs your site is in a 24 hour period. That is 2100 streams to your 300 in plain math. Your site is valueless. I am sorry you aren't even aware of that yet. It is losing value by the hour. It will continue to dwindle to an even more sorry state, if that can be believed.
When you purchase a company, are elected into an office or take any leadership role you accept that you are held to a higher level of responsibility than those you lead. These are the words of His Imperial Majesty Haile I Selassie I Jah Rastafari. You have failed your job miserably and let down the Versionist Community in a most disgraceful manner.
I am not interested in your site new or old. I am not interested in your database. I am not interested in doing business with a dishonorable man. Please accept this as my final communication with you. I do not respect you at all. I will be forthcoming with your shady dealings concerning trying to profit from music you didn't make. It is my hope that you remember the 10's of thousands you lost every time you hear reggae music playing.
Remember phone call first day? I told you that Reggae is the modern Nyahbinghi. You forgot the definition. I would use wikipedia or whatever it is that you use to appear in the know while clueless and look it up.
Rob Connelly
CEO
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