Weeks after Sumerian Records founder Ash Avildsen launched a YouTube video speaking out on music piracy, TheGauntlet.com has accused Avildsen of being a member of warez groups in the mid-90’s.
“What Ash doesn’t tell you is that when he was in high school, we ran in the same circles, the software piracy/hacking circles,” The Gauntlet’s Jason Fisher wrote in an editorial. “The quick background version is he gained control of a release group called Release on Rampage which folded, he later started another release group called Reflux (which later became the name of the band he fronted). Both groups sole purpose was pirating video games and spreading the games to as many places before they hit store shelves, sound familiar?”