In light of the European Union's insistence on
destroying the free and open internet, we regretfully inform you that Tindeck will permanently cease operations as of August 1, 2018.
During this wind-down period, uploading and new account registration
will be disabled. Track streaming and downloading (where enabled) will
also remain active during this period. If you are a registered user, you
may continue to log into your account and manage your files.
On August 1, all files and user data will be permanently and irrevocably
deleted without exception. We will not retain any personally
identifying information, and we will not sell or transfer any user data
to third parties.
This is the end of Tindeck, and if the copyright abusers who are
spending millions of dollars lobbying the EU to pass changes to Article
13 of the European Union Copyright Directive get their way, it will
likely be the end of hundreds of thousands of similar communities around
the world. These changes will not just affect people who live in the
European Union, it will affect every single website that allows EU
citizens to use their services - which is basically every site on the
internet.
So if you care about your right to a free and open internet,
do something about it. If you live in an EU country, take sixty seconds out of your day to visit
SaveYourInternet.eu and send your MEP the message that you do not support their attempts to build a draconian censorship machine.
On a personal note, I would like to offer my eternal thanks to the
hundreds of thousands of musicians, artists, podcasters, broadcasters,
tinkerers, dabblers, and experimenters who between them contributed over
half a million tracks that were enjoyed by hundreds of millions of
listeners around the world.
In the fifteen years since I launched Tindeck, I've been lucky enough to
meet and befriend many of those creators and listeners, each of whom
have contributed their time and talent to this community and who
ultimately deserved more than I was able to give them. I'm sorry that
things have ended in this way.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
-- Savvas Dimitriou
-- Founder (and reluctant executioner) of TINDECK.com
