I want to give everyone an inside look at some tactics EMI is employing to try and put MP3tunes out of business. To pound a tech startup into submission, the major record labels bury them with legal threats, pressure their partners, and impose massive document requests.
Examples of EMI's demands: Provide all copies of each digital music file stored using MP3tunes' services. (That's over 300 terabytes of storage!) Provide all documents concerning the functionality and development of all MP3tunes features. Provide full names and addresses of all entities with which MP3tunes has ever contracted. Provide all financial books and records. Provide all personnel files.
These demands have nothing to do with whether a company can help users store their music in the cloud. The goal is to force the company to spend time and money, disrupt their business, and maybe destroy them. Someone has to blaze a trail defining consumers' rights with their personal music.
--MR
