Myspace? Forged Plays?

It is not new for a lot of us, that the credibility of a giant can be shaked by the lack of honor and ethics of the people. For quite a while, inumerous services have been arising to provide artists at myspace the possibility to increase dramatically their plays, number of page visits and friends, only for some dollars.

But as it was obvious, this kind of services were, and are, violating the term of service of Myspace, so those who used this abuse policy of promotion, and still are using, for sure will not be as happy, as they were when they thought they were climbing in the charts.

As you can read in this quote of an answer done by Myspace crew member in a topic around this subject in the www.donewating.com blog.

And i shall quote:

1. By Myspace Security on Feb 4, 2008 | Reply

   Hello, this is myspace security analyst Mark Kasinowski. We are aware that bands are beginning to use fake play generator bots and scripts which strictly violates our users Terms of Servers.

   We have now started sending Music Abuse letters to bands who we are investigating. We delete approximately 14,000 band accounts per day using our automated tools we’ve developed to detect artificial increases in plays views and friends. We are currently compiling a list of sites who provide these types of services.

   We strong urge Bands to carefully consider whether losing all their Myspace friends and account information is worth the $50.00 software that allows you to cheat your plays.

   In addition, we have now implemented a policy where once your band url is detected as cheating and deleted, we block that band url from ever being used again.

   We are working activity to discourage bands from using fake bots and scripts to falsely inflate profile activity. IF you have purchased a software package that claims to increase plays or views, your account will be detected and your band url banned from future use.

   Mark
   Myspace Security Policy Enforcement
   Myspace.com

So for the records, Metricks numbers at Myspace:

"Metricks"

Lisboa, Lisboa
Portugal

Visitas ao Perfil (Profile Views): 16734

Total Plays: 12742


There are no hundred thousand plays, but for sure no risk of being deleted...

As the music was played by the listeners...

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BBC - 6 Music plays Postcard to Outerspace

Metricks music "Postcard to Outerspace" was played in Tom Robinson show "Fresh on the Net" at BBC Radio - 6 Music

Tank you Tom! :)

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Euro Pop 2008 - Freaky Trigger

Freaky Trigger is a United Kingdom Blog community with a respectful number of users that discuss music and all parallels related.
Europop 2008 is a competitive pop tournament: 16 brave players have each volunteered to ‘manage’ one of the countries involved in the Euro 2008 football tournament. This involves finding MP3 tracks from each country and pitting them in one-on-one matches with tracks from another country, in the same format and order as the ‘real’ competition. This one is designed to end at around the time the real one does, in June.

The Europop manager of the portuguese team, did a great job leading the Portuguese Nationl team of Music reaching the Semi-Finals (much better than the real soccer team, that only reached the quarter-finlas of the Euro 2008).

The selected musics selected by the manager of the Portuguese Team were:

PORTUGAL: Madredeus - “A Andorinha De Primavera”
PORTUGAL: The Weatherman - “About Harmony”
PORTUGAL: Metricks - “Postcard To Outerspace”
PORTUGAL: Buraka Som Sisteme - “Sound Of Kudoro”
PORTUGAL: Expander and Thinkfreak - “Trackum”

Thank you Portuguese Team Manager, and to all the users Freaky Trigger web site!

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