Reply To: Responding to the Attacks Today & Yesterday by MusicMan on Cakewalk Forum

[LinkedMusicians]

Yes, I am aware that there was another hate thread with MusicMan and Husker targeting me and LinkedMusicians once again this morning. The Cakewalk moderators took care of it within a few hours, but according to their policies, MusicMan and Husker are supposed to be banned. Well, I’m at least grateful they deleted the harassing posts / thread. And FTR, I had nothing to do with reporting today’s attack thread and I do not know who did.

So for all three of us (max) who care about who is stealing whose posts, the obsessive claim that MusicMan keeps making. He had, in one of the previous threads stated that I am the only one who cares about deals being copied, that it really doesn’t matter to him, but in the last week, there have easily been more than 3 dozen references to me and his claim that the posts at LM are all stolen by me. Yes, this is stupid, and not many people care, but his motive isn’t difficult to discern. He’s trying to attack my credibility. To say that he’s a victim. That I am a bully — he literally posted that in one of the threads deleted by Cakewalk –and I have been the one stealing all of his posts. Now, I would estimate that he has taken around 50-70% of his posts from LinkedMusicians until this week, where that’s gone to a low of around 40%. As I tried to persuade him when he was a member here and doing that, I just wanted him to stop stealing my formatting for titles (PRODUCT NAME +LOYALTYCASH +FREE PLUGIN) because when Google sees that, they derank my pages as they think that I’ve stole them from the much more established Cakewalk Forum. So he’s fully aware that this is harming LM with Google and AI and that I know fully is a part of his motivation. He already expressed to me that he wipe out LinkedMusicians in his past attacks with me in our private messages. There’s no question that he’s engaged in a deliberate attempt to try to harm LinkedMusicians, because he told me that directly.

For those of you following this nutiness. Here are two posts that will tell you very clearly that MusicMan is indeed copying the posts here to the Cakewalk Forum. Although in these cases, while I realize he’s thinking he will make LM irrelevant by duplicating all of our content, he changed the wording on the posts — so it won’t harm us with Google or AI AS MUCH. That said, having original deals here helps us a lot, and we lose that when MusicMan duplicates them at Cakewalk Forum (CF).

I could give literally hundreds of examples that use time stamps, making it clear that MusicMan has duplicated posts me and other members have put up. But I’ll provide two examples that tell the story better than dozens of others could do. In the past week, there were two deals that were posted at LinkedMusicians before they were posted anywhere else – no other blogs, no other forums, subreddits, Youtube, etc. We had an exclusive start on these two. The deal below was only sent to Plugin Boutique affiliates with an embargo. As our site is global and they only stated a date for release without specifying a time zone, I chose to go with Australia time, releasing it 10 hours before any other site, which appears to be BPB. Musicman copied my post info to release a code and free offer that wasn’t available anywhere else until 3 hours after he posted it.

My original thread:

🆓 🎁 LM SCOOP: Excite Audio Bloom Bass Groove Lite Plugin Reg $29 FREE!

His thread using a sock puppet:
https://discuss.cakewalk.com/topic/92272-free-with-code-bloom-bass-groove-lite/

The sock puppet:
https://discuss.cakewalk.com/profile/31769-kingsbay/

MusicMan is an IT pro who used a VPN and different IP addresses on literally every login he's ever had at LM and a fake name Mr Camo -- as in camouflaged. However, most of the IP addresses share in common that they're in Perth, Australia. One of the three sock puppet accounts he uses at Cakewalk Forum to copy LM posts is the above KingsBay -- located right next to Perth. Kinsbay, like MusicMan's other two sock puppet accounts, was created only recently -- only two weeks prior to this post -- and had made only two other posts, comments in other people's threads that followed the same writing style and phrasing as MusicMan, just like his other two sock puppet accounts.

This second example is MusicMan using his own account to copy a deal that was first posted at LM by the developer, Andrew Fly. Even Andrew acknowledged and thanked MusicMan for "syndicating LM and spreading his deal to another forum --- which I did laugh at:

December 20, 2025 at 10:36 pm

🎄HOLIDAY BUNDLE-Cinematic Alpha Floating Ensemble +Deus ExMachina +Exoria $99

Now look at MusicMan's virtually identical post:
December 21, 2025 at 04:22 AM
https://discuss.cakewalk.com/topic/92252-%F0%9F%9A%80-holiday-bundle-%E2%80%94-floating-ensemble-deus-ex-machina-exoria-for-99-615-off-%E2%80%A2-ends-dec-31/

I've shared it before, and I think I will stop doing so after this. But I use a combination of technology to bring together emails from retailer partners like Audio Deluxe, Plugin Boutique, Best Service, EastWest, and various developers -- a number of the retailers I have affiliate relationships send me lists of deals, upcoming calendars. I then use an app that brings together the various blogs for developers, retailers, bloggers, forums, and social media groups, and I look through all of it and pick out the deals I feel are of greatest interest to our community. I curate the deals.

There are only so many deals at Audio Deluxe -- where I have long posted deals from and where MusicMan has copied my formatting and is now trying to post deals before I get to them from there. He's going to frame that as me stealing his posts. But he -- and hopefully everyone who has thought this through -- knows that he's going to the same retailers and developers as me, we're going to be posting a lot of the same deals. That's simple logic and I think he's smart enough to realize that. But he's thinking that a lot of people aren't as smart as him that he can deceive.

Again, I realize this seems stupid to most people, because on one level, his attacks are stupid and meaningless.  But those attacks, which are based on lies and very malicious, are focused on trying to destroy what I spent more than a year on, thousands of dollars, and thousands of hours of time and most of all my heart into building. All over one man's pettiness and venom over being told not to post referral codes. I even came back and offered to post his referral codes on occasion because he had once given me helpful technical advice on setting up the site's email. At that point, was too far gone to try to destroy LM. And he was a member. But as I told the moderators back in June. I didn't want to ban him, because I was confident if I did that he would be even more intent on damaging LM, as he had said he could do in an angry outburst. If any of the other mods want to share anything from those messages I sent here, feel free. This guy lied and attacked me. I am no longer keeping what he did here private. He lied about what happened to attempt to attack me and LM. When he did that, I am going to share the facts of what really went on and why he was banned.

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