Rough Music is under attack! For five years RM has been on the streets of Brighton, fearlessly spitting in the eye of the powerful, kicking the corrupt in the knackers and pummelling the kidneys of profiteers. Well, apparently our efforts have not gone unnoticed.
It started with an innocent looking email dropping into the RM inbox from Nominet – regulatory overlords of the '.org.uk' domain. Apparently not convinced that Mr Rough Music was a real person, Nominet demanded personal details and proof of identification.
Unfortunately, as RM is a single collective consciousness squeezed into the vacant minds of reanimated victims of capitalism, we have no government sanctioned ID. And so we had to let the domain name roughmusic.org.uk slip into oblivion.
Speaking on behalf of an anonymous client or clients, our pal Tomas railed against the 'illegal' group behind this crudely-made A4 newsletter and demanded information on how to break through the RM privacy shield and get his mits on some personal details.
In return Tommy J received an email informing him that our details were closely guarded by Tucows Whois privacy protection. This didn't sit too well with our Tommy. "I would like to ask you to read my previous email as it seems that you didn't read it," he bitched, adding bizarrely, "if it poses a problem, please, escalate the ticket to the management."
Tommy J wasn't happy. "I am not sure on what principles does your company work [sic]," he moaned. Principles of free speech perhaps, Tomas?
After a spot of email tennis, we felt it was time to have a personal word with Mr Tomas J Stehlik. After following the trail to Tommy's business website, Stehlik IT Services, the RM Legal Wizard and Media Fixer rang up for a friendly chinwag. He was informed that "the majority" of RM articles were causing offence and the vendetta would continue to be pursued while we used abusive language like 'wanker'.
"You would not use such language about your children even if they committed some not very nice things," said Tommy, who has clearly never witnessed a Christmas at the RM household.
Tommy went on to admit that his client(s') fiendish plan was either to wait for a name to stick its head above the parapet so they could take legal action or else hound RM from domain name to domain name in the hope of knocking it down the google rankings. The dastards! Remaining steadfast in his refusal to name and shame his client(s), Tommy instead offered to act as a 'neutral' intermediary and forward our communiqués to our shadowy foes.
At this point the Rough Music war council was convened. Do we open channels of communication with whichever ego-maniac moneybags scum was trying to bring us down, or launch a full blown counter attack and strike a blow for free speech? Rough Music is not one to back away from a brawl. They can take our domain name, but they'll never take our freedom to call a wanker a bleedin' wanker!
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www.roughmusic.org - it's not like you actually have to read anything
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