I made the site essentially to get the new single (Stockholm Syndrome) to the people because many people had had problems downloading it. I was one of these people.

13/07/03

The idea at the official Muse site was that you payed for a pin number via credit card (99p) or text message (£1.50) I chose to go with the text message option as I lack a credit card. Three pins later I had decided that the whole thing was a load of shite. After an evening of extreme annoyance I went to bed thinking it'll be fine in the morning seeing as I read that it would probably be fine because it wasn't meant to be online until the following morning at 9am.

14/07/03

Morning came, as did a new pin making my current spendings £6.00. It was still fucked. I'd had it, they'd gone too far this time. There had to be a way round the system. I visited Muse's Official Chat Room and found someone calling themselves Dark Red. She had managed to actually get the song (one of few). We started chatting and I came up with an idea that would get round the copyright and stop you having to put in the non working pin to listen to the song.

This idea was that Dark Red would burn the song to CD which would get it out of the annoying wmv file format then rip it to an MP3. Easy enough you think? Not so, the ripping it back caused problems. It had become an asf file, I don't know how personally, ask Dark Red. Thankfully Jimster (friend of Dark Red) found a ripper that would take on the task. We now had the MP3, all we had to do was get it to the people.

Obviously a website was the way to go because using something like Kazaa we wouldn't get any credit for the hard work we'd put in. The original site 'Muse Saviours' was then designed, I added other pages with some mild info on the band to beef up the page a bit. I took hours because I was getting info on their climb up the ladder of fame from a video and Matthew Bellamy is stupidly hard to understand when you're trying to quote him. Eventually it was sorted, I had pictures and most importantly the new single. Everything was uploaded and ready to go. The site was published and instantly it went down. Tripod had shut us down because of the song that caused the whole thing. We were done for copyright.

'Muse Saviours' Mk2 needed to be created. 'The Saviours Of The Muse' was created shortly after the last site went down. Everything was written exactly as it was before but this time the song was uploaded to another provider then linked across keeping the site clean and easy. It went up at some point during the late afternoon and everything was peachy and still is.

We had done it. We had beaten the system and officially become 'The Site That Saved The Fans' !!!

Well that's the story, I hope you have enjoyed it. Thanks.