We'd Like to Apologize to Anyone We May Have Offended Over the Years...

Friday, June 29, 2012
by paul

At Digital Music News, we often receive detailed suggestions on where to stuff things. Which made us think: we should probably apologize to a few people we may have accidentally offended over the years.

Here are just a few names that come to mind...

A2IM

Amanda Palmer

Amazon

American Music Awards

Amie Street

Antipiratbyran

Anything Zune-related

Apple

Apple Corps

Ariel Hyatt

ASCAP

Audiogalaxy

BandPage

Beatport

Berklee College of Music

Best Buy

Beyonce

Beyond Oblivion

Big Machine Records

BigChampagne

Bill Werde

Billboard

BMI

Bon Iver

Boxee

BPI

BREIN

BurnLounge

Capitol Records

Cary Sherman

Cassette Tapes

CD Baby

Celine Dion

China

Chris Anderson

Chris Brown

Citigroup

Clear Channel Communications

CMJ

Cricket Wireless

Coachella

Coca-Cola

Daniel Ek

David Lowery

Def Jam

Disney

DMCA

Doug Morris

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

eDonkey

Elvis Costello

EMI Music

eMusic

Escape Media

Facebook

Fans First Coalition

FBI

Fox News

Foxconn

Future of Music Coalition

GEMA

Gene Simmons

George Michael

Gibson Guitar

Goldman Sachs

Google

Google Music

Google Play

Grooveshark

Groupon

Guy Hands

HADOPI

Helio

Hilary Rosen

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hip Digital

HMV

Hypebot

Ian Rogers

IFPI

Imeem

iMesh

INgrooves Fontana

Interscope

IODA

Iris Distribution

James 'Jimmy Henchman' Rosemond

Jay-Z+Kanye West

Jeff Price

Jim Urie

Joe Jonas

Kazaa

Kenny Rogers

Kim Dotcom

Last.fm

Len Blavatnik

Liquid Audio

Live Nation

Live Nation Labs

Los Angeles Times

Lucian Grainge

Lyor Cohen

Lyricfind

Madonna’s brother, Anthony Ciccone

McDonald’s

MediaNet

MegaUpload

Mel Gibson

Mercedes-Benz

Merlin

Metallica

Michael Jackson

Michael Robertson

MIDEM

Mitch Bainwol

MOG

mp3.com

Musicmetric

Muve Music

MySpace

Napster I

Napster II

NARM

Netflix

New Zealand

Next Big Sound

Nickelback

Nimbit

Ninja Tune

NMPA

OK Go

OneSheet

Overpeer

Pandora

Paul McCartney

PHO

Placido Domingo

PlaysforSure

Pressplay

Prince

Qriocity

Qtrax

Rdio

Record Store Day

ReDigi

Rhapsody

RIAA

Rihanna

RIM/Blackberry

Roadrunner Records

Rob Wells

Rolling Stone

Rolling.fm

Roqbot

Ruckus

Rumblefish

SACEM

SDMI

Sean Parker

Seeqpod

Selena Gomez

SESAC

Siri

Sirius XM Radio

Sly Stone

Snocap

Songkick

Sonos

Sony Music Entertainment

Sony BMG

Soundcloud

SoundExchange

Soundscan

Spiralfrog

Spotify

Steve Jobs

StubHub

Sunset Junction

SXSW

Ted Cohen

Teenagers

The City of San Francisco

The City of Santa Monica

The Continent of Europe

The Echo Nest

The Grammys

The Harry Fox Agency

The Law Offices of McPherson Rane LLP

The Law Offices of Rosenberg & Giger

The New York Post

The Orchard

The Recording Academy

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

The Surviving Beatles

The US Government

Ticketmaster

TicketsNow

Tommy Silverman

Topspin

Tower Records

Tunecore

TuneSat

Turntable.fm

Twitter

UB40

Universal Music Group

VEVO

Vivendi

Waffle House

Walden Venture Capital

Walmart

Warner Music Group

Whitney Houston

will.i.am

Wyclef Jean

Yahoo Music

YouTube

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Comments (21)

mdti Friday, June 29, 2012

:-D

zoso Saturday, June 30, 2012

gaming the seo with keywords... very smart...

dromusic90 Friday, June 29, 2012

LOL

Someone on the list Friday, June 29, 2012

;-)

That's probably a healthy thing for all of us to do at least once a year.

For what it's worth, know that the times you've offended me (us) have been when I know your charge against me (us) is off-base but I'm unable to explain because the information I have that would support what I'm (we're) doing is sensitive to a larger issue at play or has been shared with me (us) with a promise of confidentiality.

I apologize for comments I've made on your blog that may have been unfair to you.

lifer Friday, June 29, 2012

I am offended at being left off the list :-)

Steven Corn (BFM Digital) Friday, June 29, 2012

Is it Yom Kippur already?

Roger Friday, June 29, 2012

You either left Kayne West off the list, or you need to do hurry up and accidentally offend him...

@mattadownes Friday, June 29, 2012

Paul for the love of all battered women, please remove Chris Brown.

Eric Friday, June 29, 2012

?

Funny...I think Friday, June 29, 2012

I'm laughing while also wondering if this is just one long post for SEO.... But anyway, thanks for the apology. I coutinue to read DMN daily despite the egregiously inaccrate covrage of our product. At least it's entertaining.

paul Friday, June 29, 2012

I apologize for that.

/pr

@bigchampagne Friday, June 29, 2012

Thanks to Resnikoff for this morning's best yuks. But Paulie, you should be apologizing to readers.

@mr_trick Saturday, June 30, 2012

LOL

@johntibbsmusic Friday, June 29, 2012

This article is the best. If you're going to do something, you're going to piss people off along the way. Get over it.

@Tampa_Rick Friday, June 29, 2012

Have Mercy.

@musictechpolicy Friday, June 29, 2012

the accidentally offended? what about the intentionally offended! Keep up the good work, great list!

@ronstew Friday, June 29, 2012

Whoa.

Tom L. Friday, June 29, 2012

FMC, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but Kayne West had one of the best years of all time! One of the best years of all time!

Jonathan Jaeger Friday, June 29, 2012

Thorough list. Not sure why Grooveshark is on there, but better to be safe than sorry, in case they were indirectly offended by something.

@kevinmason Saturday, June 30, 2012

LOL. And I thought I had made a few enemies over the years...

@deliradio_com Saturday, June 30, 2012

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