Big Tech Company Shuts Down My Software - The DM Clips

So I get back home, and again, instead of celebrating this amazing event, you know, I get the email of, you know, cease and desist from this company that created the pages that said we basically were stealing their ip. And, you know, I'm boiling. I'm extremely hot. And I remember I call my, you know, legal team on the phone. They have me on speakerphone. We had to set up this crazy meeting. And, like, all of the, like, you know, partners in the company are there. And I'm hearing clapping in the background. Like, people are clapping and they're like, congratulate. They're congratulating me. And I'm, like, getting more angry. Like, as every clap happens, I'm like, is this a joke? Like, what's funny? And why are you guys clapping? And to make, you know, a long story short, they're like, congratulations, you're now a real company. You're not a real business until someone tries to sue you. And I'm like, really? Really? That's why you guys are clapping? In the back of my mind, I'm like, they're clapping because they know they're about to get paid. And that's exactly what happened. I remember I had to send over a bunch of money to send this letter. I had to go do all this discovery and, you know, they had to get all this stuff for me to prove that, you know, I1 never wanted to copy anyone because that's just not how I am. I think that's, you know, stupid. And something that I realized right then and there was you. You know, when you say something literally to a developer, they're going to take you literally. Like, they're going to create what you say. And for that, I do take full responsibility because I said, hey, I want something that operates like this. I just didn't know they were going to create an exact replica, right? So I'm sending all this information over and I'm contacting the developers, and we're having talks. And I'm going from really upset, blaming them, to calming down, blaming me to blaming them. And they're swearing, we did not steal anything from them. This is our own thing to build a page. Here's the code. Look at this page. It's the same code over on this company. They're building pages. It's just the way that you code these things. And I'm saying, well, that's not why they're upset. They're upset because it looks and functions the exact same. So, you know, what we're gonna do right now is we're Gonna shut this thing down. I'm not gonna play around with this one. I don't wanna copy anyone. You know, I paid you guys to build me software to build pages, not to copy someone. So we're gonna start over. We're gonna change this entire interface. Let's just shut it down. And you know, the one thing that I was really upset about in terms of setting it down was not the fact that I had to shut it down, because I honestly kinda agreed we shouldn't look just like them and I wanted to start over fresh. The one thing that I was disappointed about was that we had to shut down the name because part of the was that we could not use the domain Internet trafficpages.com, which I felt was going to be amazing. I mean, we were before, you know, a lot of the companies that we know and use today. So we could have been that. Who knows, you know, who knows what that company could have been had we not hit that roadblock. But anyhow, tens of thousands of dollars later to send simple replies to prove that we had shut it down. You know, they ended up not doing anything and we were great. So a few months go by and I get another email from the company suing me. And this time it's them shutting my account down that I was using with them. So I had an account, I was using their software and I was using it for my company. And all of the people that were promoting the system were using those pages. It was literally a part of our entire system. And somehow they found out that I was using it and they shut my account down. So now here I am thinking to myself, you've got to be kidding me. You have got to be kidding me. I got to from Apple, right, with the whole app situation. I got away with the last situation with the development of that other company that I had started. And now here I am again, where a third party is trying to put a hammer to something that I'm trying to build. So I go into scramble mode and I'm like, what are we going to do now? We've got to find another company to host these pages to promote this product. And the system that we have, that's exploding and people are going crazy because all of a sudden all of their stuff is not working right. Because it's not just my business, we have other people promoting the system as well. I remember we were trying to rebuild the software, we were changing the interface and we were making it more our own. And I remember I bought the Domain Mix pages and we were going to relaunch. New interface, clean code, all that good stuff. They assured me we're good, right? So MIPS pages was short for my Internet traffic system. So we just added the pages on the end, which was perfect mix between the company branding and an awesome tool that our users could leverage to generate more leads and sales. So I called them up. We've got to speed this process up. We got to get this page thing up like in a week because we don't have a business right now and people can't promote. They go, okay, great, you can use it, but I don't feel comfortable letting other people use them. Well, fine, whatever, right? We get the domain mix pages and I create the system and it's fine, it's working. You know, it's a new, brand new interface. It's really cool. We have our own templates. Everything's great and I'm excited. It's free. And, you know, people in our organization are seeing me use it, they're asking me when can they use it? And everyone's excited and everything's good. That is until another few weeks go by where we get another email from the same exact company. And what does it say in the subject line? Cease and desist. Right?