Who the crap is Song Fight Radio

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Who the crap is Song Fight Radio

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http://songfightradio.com

I have a bad feeling about this.

It appears to be registered by one Jonathan Lu, but that's all I can find out about him from Whois.
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Never heard of him.
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I have reached out to him to alert him as to our existence and inquire what he is up to.
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I did some extra research, including finding a subdomain of the site via Google; it is not a songwriting contest at all (whew, thought we were getting a ripoff version of our contest made!). Songfightradio.com is a contest that these fans of popular music are having; there is a site for listening to popular music called Rdio, and the SongFightRadio people submit songs they heard on Rdio. The users then have a vote. So basically, it's a small community of music listeners who have a contest as to what their favorite popular song as a group is.
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Tyler Zahnke wrote:(whew, thought we were getting a ripoff version of our contest made!)
HAHAHAHA
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Tyler Zahnke wrote:(whew, thought we were getting a ripoff version of our contest made!).
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Even if it's not a ripoff of Song Fight, for them to coopt the name is problematic. I know all too well what happens when you have an established name on the Internet that then gets overtaken by someone bigger than you without even any acknowledgement or apology, and if there's enough of a rabid fanbase they might even try to disrupt the pre-existing thing because they see their thing as having more of a "right" to the name.

I'm totally fine with other songwriting contests based on the same premise; what I have a problem with is subverting a name and identity.
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I know, I was just pointing out that at least it's not another contest of the same kind with that name. The thing with this so-called Song Fight Radio is, they haven't tweeted since September, so I wonder if they're gone now, and won't try to spoil the sacred Song Fight name. But in case they strike again, us contacting SFR was a good idea. I even got on their mailing list to look into their activity; I'm a spy.
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Here's an example of the results of one of their "fights":

http://beta.songfightradio.com/fights/summertime-movies

Also FAQ:

http://beta.songfightradio.com/faq/
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I understand it even less than I did before.
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Is that even possible?
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