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So, yeah. Mperia is dead, as is its parent company Bitpass.

A lot of things could have (and frankly should have) been done to make Mperia a success. But that’s all spilled milk under the bridge, now, isn’t it? The truth is, BP never really knew what to do with us — and who can blame them? I mean, really. Semantics aside, Bitpass was a bank. You can’t expect a bank to run your quirky little independent record store and do a good job of it.

Remember the frog and the scorpion? The frog has no right to bitch.

Still. Me and Josh and Kurt spent three years of our lives trying to create something with (we hoped) cultural significance and just the right amount of awesome, and it’s sad to see it just fold up like that. Not with a bang, etc., etc.

To all of you out there who used, visited, or otherwise supported Mperia, I sincerely thank you. I’d especially like to thank Warren Ellis, without whom we wouldn’t have lasted as long as we did.

Sigh. It really was a cool idea, wasn’t it?