L.A. Band 'Shocked' To Find Themselves Dragged Into TRIPP EISEN Sex Controversy

March 4, 2005

antiMUSIC is reporting that Los Angeles-based rock band FETISCH were shocked his past week when their interactive fansite, FindaFreek.com, got dragged into the STATIC-X/Tripp Eisen controversy after MTV reported that Eisen (real name Tod Rex Salvador) had interacted with an underage girl that allegedly became one of his victims on the site, which MTV classified as an "online singles community."

FETISCH feel that classification couldn't be farther from the truth and told antiMUSIC that it was "a drastically uninformed description." The band stated that they are "eager to set that record straight as well as present [FindaFreek] as the sanctuary that it is to so many of its members."

The band elaborated and explained what FindaFreek is really all about and its origins.

"FETISCH created FindaFreek as a cutting-edge interactive fansite for the band. It grew up to become a community, representing an outspoken culture. While FETISCH is often the face of FindaFreek, its members are its voice."

A quick browse of FindaFreek.com seems to confirm the band's description of the site as an online community "representing an outspoken culture" where various issues are addressed. However, the misconception may have come from the part of the community that offers members their own profile pages similar to Myspace and Friendster which includes areas where the users can provide information about themselves and descriptions of people they are looking to interact with. While any online website that allows for interaction between users and provides user profile pages can be misused in the way that Salvador allegedly utilized FindaFreek, that in itself does not necessarily make such sites "online singles communities."

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