sorry..and thanks to all who visited during the 8 months but enough is enough ive been threatened with law suits...family threatened.....pc hacked......email hijacked.... links removed blacklisted from pay music sites...so i cant buy legitimately... and all i wanted to do was try and promote deep soulful vibes as progressive and electro is all over the place but hey i tried..... all links will be removed within 72 hours peace...Keisha

A word of explanation: for some time, "Keisha" has run one of those blogs that consists of nothing but links to pirated music. The hilarious thing is that next to a few hundred dollars worth of pilfered downloads, she has a little image that read "Please Support the Artists". Apparently, the best way to do that is to pirate their music.

She posted the above message apparently in response to getting legal takedown notices. And the funny thing is, she sounds twice as whiny as the million dollar artist claiming he can't feed his 50 illegitimate children because some kid dumped his stuff on bittorrent.

Few people have railed against the backwards thinking of the dance music - and specifically House Music - community than I have. I've actually confronted artists when they spin out some antiquated notion that House Music will be a-okay if people "buy more music".

But Keisha? You were not fucking helping artists. You say you were giving them exposure? People die of exposure. And the fact is that you knew what you were doing was wrong the entire time, otherwise you would have happily hosted the downloads on your own site called www.keisha-yourlastname.com rather than posting RapidShare links, which are notoriously difficult to have removed.

I seriously doubt anyone in the industry "hacked" your PC (most people at labels barely understand the internet - and I'm only half-joking about that). And I'm very sorry you had "links removed" - I'm sure you deserve to be compensated for the few minutes you spent uploading someone else's music (and we'll leave alone the hypocrisy that the artists don't deserve it for the days, weeks and months they spent creating it).

But the fact is, you're not a person "promot[ing] deep soulful vibes". You are what Andrew Orlowski at The Register has popularized as a "freetard" - one who "nobly refuse to pay creators for music, TV and film as a point of principle". You posted more music than most people could even listen to simply because you could, and because it gave you a bit of a rush to have that kind of power as someone in the know, someone in control.

My advice on where you go from here is to run to the back alley behind an audio shop, hijack the delivery truck and steal a pair of turntables. At least then you'd be able to have some sort of skill at the end of the day. And you could even use your real name!