http://www.ourstage.com/search?search=winterband

Regards,

Bro. Winter

If there had truly been anything offensive then they would have been able to be specific.

This shows the unstable, untrustworthy, and unprofessional management at Ourstage.

They have no problems with their hip hop groups posting obscenity, degrading women and all of that.

No they are lying. Some false-christians didn’t like the Bible verses that were proving them to be fakes.

Bro. Winter http://www.prime.org

I read the linked page and e-mails, but since I don’t know exactly what was on your OurStage profile, I have no basis to form any sort of opinion. It might help your cause to post that information, so that people can judge for themselves whether or not you violated their terms of service.

The way I read it, if you’re offending people, they can remove the “offensive” material at their discretion. Sounds fair to me. I’d do the same here if someone posted something clearly out of bounds. Ultimately I’m responsible for the content of my site.

Details and documentation are available at:

http://www.winterband.com/Ourstage.html

What has happened is outrageous religious censorship and discrimination.
Whether you love us or hate us consider the precedent that this situation establishes.

If anyone you know is investing time and effort building a presence and network of connections on Ourstage you owe it to them to make them aware of what is going on.

Bro Steve Winter

I have used ourstage for a while. I want to share my experience.

After the Spoken Word/Poetry channel and a dozen others were deleted, many artists were forced to enter their tracks in other categories. It was obvious that the choice that was left us was very limited. But we tried to compete nonetheless, because we live for our art.

As soon as one of my tracks started ranking in the top 50 of the new category it was in, I received a pre-formatted email from staff at ourstage explaining that many people had complained about my tracks not being a good fit. It was removed with no warning. This happened twice in one week.

I discussed this situation with a few other Spoken Word artists and they told me that they had encountered the same issue.

Ourstage is a money-hungry website that uses hypocritical ideas to get publicity. They want to help independent artists and save the world from mediocre music. Give me a break. We have complained countless times about rappers and other musicians spamming our channel with tracks that did not belong to the Spoken Word category. Nothing was done, no track was ever removed. Instead, they deleted our channel!

Ourstage is a joke that has no respect for independent artists…