Wednesday
01Apr2009
Filmet on Blabbermouth (!!!)
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 10:51AM 
The "NBI" takedown of Filmet has reached Blabbermouth
FilipinoMetal.com, the Philippines' most prominent metal web site has been taken down by the local police and the National Bureau of Investigation (N.B.I.). Four counts of libel and defamation were filed against the web site's owner and his affiliates on March 26, 2009 in relation to the FilipinoMetal.com efforts to root out pay-to-play gigs in the country. N.B.I.'s Computer Crimes Division confiscated all server files for investigation and closed down the web site, including its forums, the following day.
FilipinoMetal.com spearheaded a movement against pay-to-play gigs last year. They released a "scumlist" — a blacklist of all "known pay-to-play organizations" in and out of the nation's capital. The infamous list and all materials related to it are allegedly the source of the legal action. Jet Asinas, proprietor of FilipinoMetal.com, commented, "Yes, we are having problems with the local police, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. We would like to thank everyone who has supported our efforts in curbing out the shameful practices of pay-to-play organizations in our scene. For sure, this is not yet over. These people are just wasting their time and money. They have no case."
The web site is home to 9,000 users and the page enjoys 14,000 unique hits every day. It is the Philippines' definitive resource of local metal news, gigs and more. In the meantime, an offshoot anti-pay-to-play web site was made by non-metal supporters of the movement recently to continue the efforts of FilipinoMetal.com.
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Reader Comments (17)
no shit? isn't this supposed to be just an April Fools Day joke? Or Am I being trolled already?
kala ko april fools lang ni sir jet, yun pala totoo.. tsk tsk,, takteng mga scum prods yan.. destroy
awesome list? and the header @_@
Glad to know the site closure at least got some buzz in Blabbermouth but we need to get more noise going. I'm not really sure how strong this Libel case is against the website or this may yet be some other form of "sabre-rattling" by the NBI to prove their worth the taxmoney alloted to them.
I have a feeling all this will all eventually go away and that the website will come back stronger than ever (crossing my fingers), but until then... we all need another cybernook to park our fucking asses in.
Horns up. \m/
- TDG
just goes to show that we are a force to reckon with. this aint gonna bring us down though, at most, this will only fuel our urge to keep fighting
GIVE ME BACK MY SEDUCTION CORNERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
WE WILL NOT RELENT.
its time to print the shirts people
^ tama tama! shirt! :)
hindi ba dapat ang pagtuunan ng NBI eh yung mga Pay to Play na productions? dahil form din to ng scamming?
This lawsuit just gave FilipinoMetal.com 100 thousand bad-ass points!
tsk talaga nga naman.at least may pinatutunguhan ginagawa.kala ko rin joke lang ito so nag search ako ng info dito..anyway tuloy ang supporta ko sa filmet,kahit hindi halata tuloy lang.
oh. I need a shirt too... shirt na yan..
As always, the authorities are after the wrong shit. I want 2 shirts- 1 with the Filipinometal.com print and one with the No to Pay-to-Play design. Tama si Jet, There is no fucking case.
Our fires will continue to blaze...
Damn those scum prods....
define blabbermouth.
"Metal will always be Metal, you burn it, you twist it, It will stay Metal!"
Blabbermouth na yan! Kapit mga Bakal Ulo!