Important: Legal Action Against Online Sequencer

[pseudoname]

Good morning, Online Sequencer.

Earlier today, Online Sequencer was hit with a flurry of legal action from UMG and WMG, including demands to take down a significant portion of the website's sequences and for stricter moderation of all user created sequences going forward. The consensus between the mod team and Jacob is that we cannot reasonably enforce these demands at the moment. Since they were made under threat of immediate and severe legal action, we are forced to sadly shut down the website for the foreseeable future to protect ourselves.

This is just as difficult a decision for us to make as it is for you to hear. Information available to the mod team is still incomplete, and we will provide updates in the discord as we receive them. For now, what we do know is that you have until 12pm PDT tomorrow, April 2nd, to back up your sequences locally before our servers shut down and you risk losing them forever. We are deeply sorry to make this decision, but our hand has been forced.

It's been a great 12 years of sequencing online. We hope your music careers continue to flourish elsewhere.

- Online Sequencer Mod Team

[MichaelKim]

Please marry me

[extremonomia]

noooooooooooooooo

[l3en]

[--THEWILLBR--]

"The consensus between the mod team and Jacob is that we cannot reasonably enforce these demands at the moment."
so you can't just take down a couple sequences and be better moderators?

[pseudoname]

The demands we received are to take down tens of thousands of sequences and manually review every sequence that gets uploaded in the future. Currently, around 2000 sequences are created or updated every day. As a group of ~10 unpaid volunteers, we don't have the time or the resources to keep up with these demands.