Last night before I went to bed I got a couple of emails from BMI. One was my application approval and the other was from Lisa Jacquet. Lisa Jacquet email explained to me that it is BMI’s policy for all artists who reside abroad to fill out a W8 form. At this point I was feeling like things are finally getting done. Since it was late and I was tired, I figured that I would take care of setting up my account and filling out that form and send it in. I went to bed a happy camper
This morning I get up check my mail, and there is also a message from Laura Smith that says pretty much the same thing about BMI policy. No big deal because there are 2 people working on my application. After reading that I go setup my account on the BMI website. Then I decide that I’ll go write on my website about how everything has been resolved and that I am no longer irritated with BMI because things finally got done in a quick manner even though it took a little over a month.
When I logged in to write my post I found a comment waiting to be moderated. How odd I thought, because no one ever leaves comments. Usually these are just spam comments that slipped by the spam catcher. In fact I didn’t think many people actually read anything here outside of the Kontakt and Logic information.
To my surprise the comment was for the previous post BMI Part 2. I wasn’t sure what to make of it. Here’s the comment:
Dude really…why are you being such a big baby….they are asking u to fill out one paper…regardless of what your friends tell you…if this woman is telling you what they need you to send them in order to proceed with the application process then just do it. Clearly she knows for what purposes it is needed so who cares what paper your friend tells u you need to fill out your friend doesnt work for the company now do they?
I wasn’t sure if I wanted to reply to it or not. As I mulled it over, I decided to go check my web stats. I’m such a big statistic junkie for my site. I mostly view the logs so I can add content that caters to what people are searching for and to see what is popular amongst my posts. I noticed that the BMI posts were getting most of its views from the same ip address range. In fact the comment came from the same IP range. I then did a reverse DNS lookup of that IP and behold to my astonishment, the IP of the comment and majority of the views of my BMI posts are coming from the BMI.com IP address range. After seeing that my new feeling of happiness with BMI has vanished.
At this juncture in time, I’m really considering canceling my BMI account. This overall experience has left me wondering what kind of things should I expect from BMI in regards to future treatment.
Hi guys and girls at BMI, thanks for reading. Remember Ame one loves you!