[swhipple]

> On stealing "ideas," do you have some advice here? Smule has never specified what ideas they think we stole.

In their initial complaint filing [1] they mention "Synch Technology" (automated video/audio synchronization) several times.

"[...] specifically including the development of Smule's proprietary artificial intelligence technology that analyzes audio and video files and through the use of algorithms, automatically synchronizes video footage to audio files in a manner that results in a pleasing and and appropriate matching of the action and the music"

"[Shred] which purports to have developed a product that detects and segments key points of unstructured video and algorithmically synchronizes these videos to music in the same or similar manner as Smule's Synch Technology."

Some of the quotes and actions by your former boss leave a bad taste in my mouth, but if the AV synchronization is indeed similar to their own or developed using their resources, they will have a strong case that you've breached your contract.

[1] Found here, thanks to codingdave: http://webaccess.sftc.org/Scripts/Magic94/mgrqispi94.dll?APP...