I think that this says it all, actually. From what you said here, James, it seems to me that you were dealing with a kind-of paranoid company that didn't want anyone post anything negative about their products. But let me try to express that in a form of a "script for other possible situation". You could've posted that video without those tags, and used something like "another company's synth with open technology" or whatever. I'm pretty sure the same thing would happen. Because then, they'd want their logos from keyboards, or whatever removed, blurred, God only knows. Which you wouldn't have to do.Sharp wrote: 1: I used the words Neko and Open Labs only in meta tags that related to video's I posted of Open Keyboards, and Open Technology. That's what YouTube is for. It's not an advertising platform for you, it's a social networking community for everyone. That being said, Jessica did not even have the power to consider for one single moment what my intentions were and gave no consideration whatsoever to my explanation. Her gold was simply to stop my Video's that related to Open Technology from coming up in search engine results for Open Labs products.
What people in various companies have to understand is that youtube, facebook, and all of those sites aren't there for their marketing, just as you said, and that they can't really censor people in any way. It's a social networking community site that lets people post (almost) whatever they want, given certain rules. And you were comparing some keyboards, which is a part objective and a part subjective process, which you have the right to do - whatever anyone asks you to do. And increasing traffic through keywords... what the heck are keywords for, if not for that? That's the basis of HTML, web, and everything else.
For all I care, if someone else was to do this to you again, it's like trying to forbid you to voice your own opinion. They should do a better job, and not try to shut people up. Keywords were just a smokescreen. And that really makes me wanna puke. A lot.
And Victor... I had a chance to meet quite a few people from your company as I'm a member of the international press core covering a lot of stuff - among other things, NAMM. Some of them seemed nice enough, some offered kind-of "bribery" in forms of discounts for their products should I write nice things about them (as did a number of other companies, like Muse Research etc.) so... let's not play games here. This is a public, free of charge, no-profit forum. There are people who like and/or dislike OL products and it's gonna be like that forever. Personally, I'm with Martin on this one - as I think that OL's products were way too expensive for what they offered and could've been vastly improved. DBeat is a perfect example of that. And I also think that products that you're working on right now seem much more reasonable. Take note that I use the term "OL" for "Open Labs", and not you personally in the post. That's deliberate. I don't claim that you're personally to blame about any of this.
....going to start a new thread....