Continuing on the subject of failed ad-supported digital music models, if you’ll recall, we last heard from my hero, the Baghdad Bob of digital music Allen “Honest Al” Kelpfish (also referred to by his acolytes as “AK”—don’t you just love that—it sounds so moguly) in mid-August when CNet broke a story about the latest in a long string of lawsuits and judgments against Qtrax.

mid-August when CNet broke a story about the latest in a long string of lawsuits and judgments against Qtrax.

On August 17, “AK” was reached for comment by CNet reporter Greg Sandoval regarding a suit filed in NY State Supreme Court by Qtrax technology provider Millenium Information Technologies. (This story ran on the heels of Sandoval’s prior report of a lawsuit filed by database giant Oracle over a $1.8 million rubber check issued by “AK”). The CNet story read as follows:

As for Millennium, Klepfisz said there was more to the story than what was in the court documents.

“By and large, all our vendors have done an exceptional job,” Klepfisz said. “There are occasional exceptions. We feel we have a basis for this action (with Millennium).”

Klepfisz’s statement suggests that Qtrax was unhappy with the quality of service it received from Millennium. There were, however, no complaints from Klepfisz when he responded to Millennium’s demands for payment, documents show. iapps.courts.state.ny

“Next wire I believe is Wed. I will confirm,” Klepfisz wrote Millennium representatives, who filed copies of the e-mails with the New York court. “I think by early July we can clear whatever is deemed to be outstanding.”

Klepfisz also wrote: “Sorry for the lateness. Will be in your account first thing in the morning. Another installment Tuesday. Thanks.”

One February 2008 payment that Qtrax sent Millennium for $26,250 “was returned, and not honored by the Defendant’s financial institution, citing ‘insufficient funds.‘”

The very next day, Aug. 18, “AK” wrote the following in a deliciously paranoid blog post:

“We have a somewhat dated lawsuit going on with a Company called Millenium. They provided services for our servers before our aborted launch at Midem. We paid them some. And frankly struggled doing it, at the time. I can’t say more than that most of our suppliers have been wonderful. There are sometimes, exceptions. The legal system can decide if this is one.”

Well, “AK” was right. The legal system did decide and with no help from him. Not only did “AK” not bother making a case against Millenium’s claims in court, he didn’t even bother to show up! So last week the Court Clerk entered a default judgent to Millenium for $147,634.72 plus $15,977.75 in interest.

Good luck collecting, Millenium. I do have some very good advice for you though: if “AK” decides to settle, don’t take a check.

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