Hackers erase Bakersfield band Adema's myspace page of 36,000 friends - By N.L. Belardes

Bakersfield band Adema's myspace page was hacked on November 8th. Will it be resurrected from the myspace.com servers? That's 36,000 connection points down the tubes (not friends, I hate that term and you know why). And that's a big deal when you're a band with a big recording contract with Earache records, a new album about to come out, and when the music industry depents on bands online networking prowess with myspace fans: how many song downloads can you get per day?

Adema started a new myspace page, www.myspace.com/ademamusic
and sent out a bulletin. Here's a portion:

As of Wednesday, November 8th 2006, the official ADEMA Myspace page was gone. Non-existent. Disappeared into thin air! We noticed it was missing from people's "top 8" or "top 24". When we tried logging in, it simply read "invalid password". We tried the Myspace search engine - and got NOTHING!

We chilled for a few hours (thinking that maybe it was simply a "glitch" in the stystem. (You ALL know that Myspace can be a pain in the ass sometimes... It's a little slow; shit's not workin' like it's supposed to,ect...). It has it's faults. Myspace is kinda like you're ugly cousin. Or your stupid sister. Or that crazy-ass Uncle that laughs at his own jokes... But it's family; you don't just kick your family to the curb, because you don't "get along" at times, right?

...we had about 36,000+ friends; people that we spoke with online everyday that always keep us on the right track & BELIEVE in us (even when sometimes it feels like we don't believe in ourselves...). Myspace had become a big part of our lives; whether we wanted it to or not. It has become a part of my daily routine when I wake up in the morning: get out of bed. take a leak. feed the cat. check Myspace. (though not neccesarily in that order...lol).

There is a fake ADEMA profile that also mysteriously popped up the same day that our original Myspace went down - We think this might be the rat-fuck that hacked into our shit (you know who you are...). I'm not going to glorify them by advertising for his site - they'll be dealt with soon enough :)
I have a problem with myspace: People depend too much on it for business and social networking. So what's the probem if myspace is a great tool for marketing yourself as a business or individual?

This is sad news as many of you readers know I have recently dealt with haters on myspace too: a select few from the defunct elitist press, who I could easily photoshop into strange sexual poses and permanently dirty their names too. But why play that game? Such people just make themselves look stupid and unprofessional. Their antics will haunt them as they seek to further climb in the professional world (By the way, you can still see a cached site of the myspace hate site against me if you know how Google works).

It's what I tell people all the time: your myspace page, or myspace itself could disappear any day. If all your eggs are in a basket that you can't control, then where does that leave you if you life a life or you're in an industry that depends on statistics you can generate through myspace?

The problem? Myspace doesn't allow people to purchase myspace urls and have themm hosted on outside servers. That means I can't purchase www.myspace.com/nlbelardes.

Myspace controls www.myspace.com/nlbelardes. I'll never control it unless I own the url and a myspace software package.

So I don't take myspace as seriously as others. It's a great tool, but let's face it, your page, my page, or the entire site could disappear. And if it does? How do you just re-add 36,000 connection points?

Let's hope myspace recognizes a great user in Adema, and resurrects their url. Otherwise, how much potential revenue is lost for Earache Records? How much word of mouth is lost because of the cheap and ease of marketing through myspace is gone? How does Adema and Earache's relationship potentially strain? When you have a band like Adema, an entity once signed with Arista, we all know they can still reach globally to a lot of people...

This entry was posted by N.L. Belardes, on Saturday, November 11, 2006. You can leave your response.