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Love the video!

This a more important point than anything I've said in here. Thank you.

Yeah, I hear you, hindsight 20-20. It was Mark's manager John Shimmin who made that request. John is a great guy, and Mark had (still has?) a great relationship with him. He genuin…

The filing is public, and referred to in the lawsuit. I'll summarize here: Smule has claimed we violated non-solicitation provision in our contract by recruiting each other to star…

Of course, if one member in a couple has $40 million dollars and the other does not, and the rich one files a lawsuit against the other without even first talking to her, one might…

It certainly seems like a reach to just assume bad behavior on both ends. Which actually, is one of the more insidious outcomes of making absurd claims against someone, even if the…

Yes, thoughtful response, our lawyers are looking into this very strategy.

Thanks for your thoughtful comments. Relevantly, Shred Video doesn't even compete directly with Smule for customers. Smule is building a network of karaoke singers and aspiring mus…

What do you mean by "right strategy" in this sense? Doing a 3rd party review of Shred vs Smule code/methods will give them a trove of relevant information if they intend to win on …

Just want to point out that Smule has not cited trade secret theft as a claim against us. And on non-compete, Mark and I were just employees, not officers of any sort. Neither of u…

thoman23. You so get me right now.

Yes, in legalese those would be considered trade secrets. Tellingly, Smule did not name "theft of trade secrets" as a claim in their lawsuit.

In our case, we did not develop anything Shred-related (ideas or otherwise) while we were employed at Smule. So invention assignment is not at issue, because we did not moonlight o…

Completely agree. We ourselves were very conscientious to never do anything Shred Video-related on any Smule machines, and did not build anything Shred Video-related until after we…

Don't you think this will be absolved with a review of Shred Video's code/methods vs Smule's code/methods? And isn't it telling that Shred Video is more than willing to submit to s…

Hi Paul thanks for your comments. In the code comparison, the 3rd party will also be able to look at methods (in addition to code copied directly). We're more than happy to include…

Yes, I completely agree. Thing is, we'd have to go through the full legal process before we could pursue that. Smule filed the lawsuit months before we even had a product or got in…

My co-founder Mark Godfrey did go work full-time for another company before we started Shred Video. He didn't start working full-time on Shred Video until May 2015. Smule filed the…

This is not a last nuclear option, and we're not in danger of losing our company to the lawsuit. Everything in the post is 100% true. We did get a lawyer involved when we started S…

Thanks Lane, I'd love to hear about your experience. I'll reach out to you separately. Financially we're going to be fine, we have enough already to fight this legally. Of course w…

One of the best ways to discourage bad behavior is to shine a light on it, which is why we're publishing our story. The risk here isn't that your former employer actually has a rig…

Hi All I'm a founder of Shred Video and the author of this article. Happy to answer any questions about our experience.

hi datamart not at the moment. for the kinds of movies Shred Video creates music is too critical to forego.

we're working on a recovery feature, so if you liked the previous shred better than a new one you can go back to it. we can probably use that to salvage the last shred in the event…

thanks for the detailed review - you're tweaked video was really good! gainers were sick. for readers, this will be a pretty common reaction w/ first time use: the first version wi…