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February 7, 2009 at 5:05 pm #548946
acapellaKeymasterIt’s come to our attention today that an email that we sent out to our newsletter subscribers has been leaked onto a forum.. That’s not a sin we know, it happens all the time.
Basically, we wanted to reward our newsletter subscribers with unprecedented access to the collection for a 24 hour period at the same time as mentioning who won the 250 bonus downloads for last year.. We had a technical hitch and the 24 hour period soon turned into an all week leechathon *soundfx here*

It was an interesting excercise that back fired on us slightly, but hey ho, it doesn’t matter. It’s taught us even more about human behavior on t’inernet and to be honest, we still see it as a massive success because it just goes to strengthen our policy on why we contain such a tight ship here. If you don’t have a good system then people will simply abuse and try to get everything out of it they can and tell the world about it too so their friends can benefit.
So, we know where the leak came from, there’ll be no war! it’s all good fun.
I hope anyone lucky enough to have known about this will be enjoying the new acapellas you downloaded from us and the world looks forward to seeing how creative you are with all that new material.
Regards,
acapella
AdSense 336x280February 7, 2009 at 5:05 pm #663667
acapellaKeymasterIt’s come to our attention today that an email that we sent out to our newsletter subscribers has been leaked onto a forum.. That’s not a sin we know, it happens all the time.
Basically, we wanted to reward our newsletter subscribers with unprecedented access to the collection for a 24 hour period at the same time as mentioning who won the 250 bonus downloads for last year.. We had a technical hitch and the 24 hour period soon turned into an all week leechathon *soundfx here*

It was an interesting excercise that back fired on us slightly, but hey ho, it doesn’t matter. It’s taught us even more about human behavior on t’inernet and to be honest, we still see it as a massive success because it just goes to strengthen our policy on why we contain such a tight ship here. If you don’t have a good system then people will simply abuse and try to get everything out of it they can and tell the world about it too so their friends can benefit.
So, we know where the leak came from, there’ll be no war! it’s all good fun.
I hope anyone lucky enough to have known about this will be enjoying the new acapellas you downloaded from us and the world looks forward to seeing how creative you are with all that new material.
Regards,
acapella
AdSense 336x280February 7, 2009 at 5:37 pm #663668
Reggie_p75ParticipantOf the large database of acapellas on here I can say I enjoyed no more than 120 acapellas, that I honestly thought would be of use to me..
I guess some people sucked the blood from your veins but maybe next time (even if there’s a next time
) give members 25-50-100 acapellas rather than free rein of the place. Otherwise it’ll be like a kid birthday party again… CHAOS!!!!!!AdSense 336x280February 7, 2009 at 9:32 pm #663682
solcofnParticipantI completely missed this.
Damn. I guess I better check my email more often.
AdSense 336x280February 8, 2009 at 12:02 am #663692
jerver73Participantlured me back to the site though.. my fingers are itching to comment/update the acapalla db.. get that uploading/comment system back on
AdSense 336x280February 8, 2009 at 9:54 am #663712
acapellaKeymasterjerver73 wrote:lured me back to the site though.. my fingers are itching to comment/update the acapalla db.. get that uploading/comment system back on
Wb mate.. you have had a long period of absent ism haven’t you!
We’re working on developing our new site and once this is done all of the old functionality will come back and from my pov be even less time-consuming to administer. This is why it’s all currently offline.
Hit me up via PM if you want.
Regards,
acapella
AdSense 336x280February 8, 2009 at 2:41 pm #663720
DrugCzarParticipantthank you so much for giving me the opportunity to rape pillage and slaughter these acapellas during that leech fest. i plan on donating to this site and now contributing so i can hopefully give back for the literly 1266 acapellas i got non stop in the 4 days u were open. if you can point me to the spot where i can donate i will do it asap.
it just goes to show that even tho some people will take advantage others who do take advantage are willing to give back
AdSense 336x280February 8, 2009 at 6:10 pm #663743
sjceeParticipantI still think it was a good opportunity for downloading some files of unknown artists and songs.
With the current limitation on credits, one is quite limited on downloading unknown stuff, which "might be interesting"…
BTW. also downloaded various versions of the same acapella and could help to clean the stock or do some renaming -What happened to that option???
AdSense 336x280February 9, 2009 at 7:00 am #663771
djblacParticipantgood to hear you think of it as a success too. awesome 😀
AdSense 336x280February 9, 2009 at 8:13 am #663772
ratchetParticipantthis place is great
AdSense 336x280February 9, 2009 at 1:35 pm #663796
GMoneyParticipantTotally missed it.
Darn!
AdSense 336x280February 11, 2009 at 9:29 pm #663904
SaintdanmicParticipantOh wow. I didn’t realize I was leeching. The songs I clicked on said it was in an unmetered area or something to that effect. I didn’t realize I was exploiting a bug. I just found this site not too long ago. Will donate at my next paycheck. This site kicks butt.
AdSense 336x280February 12, 2009 at 6:53 am #663923
SupaDupaParticipantWho, What, When, Where,..and why not…
AdSense 336x280February 12, 2009 at 7:50 am #663926
alecParticipantdear god i’m surprised the server didn’t explode lol. I completely and totally missed out on this one. But its all good, because I’m sure it’ll happen again sometime in forever.
AdSense 336x280February 15, 2009 at 2:50 pm #664147
housefly88ParticipantI missed out on the leech a thon… but I dont think I would have downloaded much anyway. I have to agree with being ablt to check out unknown accapellas though. What I dont understand is why people try to snag everything, I think of this place as a storage area for my accapellas so I dont have to store 200 gigs of MP3’s I probally will never use. I just download what I need at the time I need it…
P.S. Hello everyone, I am back for a spell. I havent logged in for quite sometime, and I actully was suprised that my account hadnt been deactivited. : )
AdSense 336x280February 26, 2009 at 4:18 pm #664667
harkinParticipantcheers man, some really nice stuff here..
AdSense 336x280March 1, 2009 at 8:10 pm #664834
djmc1ParticipantMissed this one lol
dang
AdSense 336x280March 4, 2009 at 6:31 am #664987
FLOFADERParticipantTHIS SITE IS GREAT
AdSense 336x280March 4, 2009 at 8:27 am #664991
omgitssum1Participant[quote quote="djmc1":a0h0hhf1]Missed this one lol
dang[/quote:a0h0hhf1]
Me too…
AdSense 336x280May 18, 2010 at 9:06 pm #679586
acheadKeymasterWasn’t able to get in on the fun.. Hopefully there will be another party soon.. I love new toys to play with..
AdSense 336x280May 19, 2010 at 12:02 am #679591
ChunkyEatsMyDinnerParticipant[quote quote="DrugCzar":1guoeson] i plan on donating to this site and now contributing so i can hopefully give back for the literly 1266 acapellas i got non stop in the 4 days u were open….
it just goes to show that even tho some people will take advantage others who do take advantage are willing to give back[/quote:1guoeson]Saintdanmic wrote:I just found this site not too long ago. Will donate at my next paycheck. This site kicks butt.Haha, over a year later and im failing to see evidence of them donations!

Im sure the intention was there guys!
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