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Originally posted by NLB
Badmouthing Matrix came from the rumour about our webmaster list being given to Acacia. Matrix has never sold our list to anyone. These rumours stem from people who cannot compete fairly, and chose to badmouth as their marketing campaigns. It seems that the only people perpetuating these rumours are people who have something to gain by putting down Matrix. We contribute to the industry by keeping our content valuable, and we're sure that your members notice the difference between Matrix Content and others.
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I emailed all my the people on my list to see who had been approached by Acacia. Too many came back with the story that the information Acacia had used could only have come from Matrix as it was coded in a non obvious way. Many of these people are not frequenters of the boards.
So it's not proof but just an indication or where the list came from.
One thing is sure though, you have always got the chance that a licensee will sell out your information to Acacia. These people signed up purely on a business decision based on their own good and not that of the industry or others in it. So who can guaranty they did and will not ever give up their mailing list.
Acacia were licensing for 2% of the gross turn over, well let's say someone was offered 1% or only 2% of the Video turn over, would that be worth giving up your mailing list? Remebering it's all about business, a purely business decision. Morals and ethics do not enter into the equasion, only the bottom line.
What you can say is your information is safer with the people who are fighting than those who signed.
NLB
You will argue this, but you have only to show us proof or us to all say sorry.