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The Story Of A Boy

Published November 16th, 2005 in Site News, Tech

Hello to all. Its been quite a while since I’ve had any news to post. And even now I don’t really have any news per-say. I have more of a story to tell. So as some of my more industrious (creepy) readers may have discovered, I also run a company called “migraineheartache. software.” With this company, I recently released a line of products called “MySpacerXP.” They were small pieces of what most would consider ‘utility’ software aimed at helping bands (or anyone really) promote themselves on the social networking website, myspace.com. There were three different versions of the program: A messenger version, a group inviter version, and an event inviter version. These were all basically just ways to shortcut having to click over and over to message people, invite them to a group, or invite them to an event, receptively. So, time went by, I created a small buzz and basically became known as “the bad guy” by my competition. (See Eek! Records) However, merely to see how my product stacked up against the others, I downloaded their product and fired it up. It was running rather slow so I decided to check out what exactly the program was doing. I then fired up my copy of Ethereal (A network protocol analyzer). Within minutes I discovered why the program was behaving so erratically, turns out that “Eek! Records” (which is owned and operated by an individual named Bob Ricci) had included some code in his “Friend Adder” program that was constantly make web requests to play one of his songs (He’s also a musician) on some obscure promotion website. So, to summarize, Eek! Records’ is using this program (which they are charging money for) to promote themselves using YOUR computer! Not only is this horrible software coding practice and bad business practice, its also bogging down the computers of all the people who are unknowingly using this product. That was merely an aside, (if Bob or Eek! get in any kind of trouble, don’t worry, I’m not sorry). Back to my story. All was well until last night when I received a cute little cease and desist letter from MySpace’s legal department. It basically was asking me to remove any references to MySpace, MySpacerXP, or any product/service that broke the MySpace.com Terms Of Services from my website and domain name. I, as most people would have been, was a little scared. Not because I thought anything could happen to me (I’ve done my homework on the subject), but I mean this was MySpace, a $580 million company. And they were sending me, ME and email. Moving on, I complied with their requests and sent them an email apologizing for any inconvenience I may have caused them. They then replied thanking me for my “prompt attention to this matter.” Now all is well, however I will no longer be selling any software that will interface with MySpace.com in anyway whatsoever. Anyways, that sounded far more complicated than it really was. But thanks for listening.

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1 Christopher Mason Dec 27th, 2007 at 3:15 am

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Christopher Mason and I am in a local Las Vegas band called ACENMASON…. I was in a local band about 2 years ago called My Own Demise. I used your software and I would have to say it was probably the best thing ever invented. But it had one flaw. I used the “Group Inviter” piece and within 24 hours my band was the number one unsigned band on myspace. Even above Tila Tequila. I ended up with over 100,000 people on my group list and over 10,000 new adds on my friends list. But there was just one flaw. NO LOG!!!!!!!!!!!???????????? I got so many hate mails about how I sent add requests to somebody more than once. Only because I ran your bot on every band page I could think of. So, of course people have more than one band page added to their friends list. So I guess that is just a simple mistake that brought the demise of your clmpany. I still to this day think My actions single handedly shut down your operation. Not intentionally by no means. But I did send those requests out to a fuck load of people. Withink 24 hours I was number one band, my profile was number one deleted and you were number one BOT SHUT DOWN. I do apologize. But what can I say? In EEKADDERS defense, they do log ID’s and I believe if you did at that time you may still be in business. Myspace may have never even thought about adding CAPTCHA…. well maybe not, but definitely a good pipedream…

Lots of love man you gave us 15 minutes of fame on myspace that I will never forget. My old profile still has at least 1000 friends that we did recover afterward. Good percentage huh? LOL

Merry late Christmas and a happy new year!
2 Carlos Edwards Jun 8th, 2009 at 9:55 am

Can you provide me with some more information on this? Thanks - Chuck
3 MySpace Friend Adder Jun 21st, 2009 at 4:10 am

I found your blog whlie Googling for ways to promote my own blog with Social Networks. Great work here - hope that I can get mine going soon - any tips or advice for a relative newb?
4 MySpace Proxy Jun 24th, 2009 at 10:35 am

Very well thought out and informative. I’m sure many others enjoy reading this too, but are just a little scared to post - anyway - thanks again!
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