Simfile downloading....illegal?

[flooger]

Ok. When you download a simfile you get the dwi file the sm file and all the other background files ect...but what else do you get along with it?

The song file.
There are many simfiles with songs from bigtime artists like Scooter and Eifel 49(or whatever number it is). So like I said before you also get the song track.

If you go into the songs folder you see the song track. Click it and start listening to it. There. You just downloaded a song from a major artist. You can delete all the other files and just have the song.

Any thoughts people?

Discuss:

[rshadow8888]

Re: Simfile downloading....illegal?

technically.... yes. it's not legal

[solopro]

Re: Simfile downloading....illegal?

Whoa, I neveer thought of that.

[flooger]

Re: Simfile downloading....illegal?

technically.... yes. it's not legal

Exactly. In FFR we even ask permission to use songs people upload on newgrounds! and those songs anyone can use. But then simfiles for stepmania are a completly different story. We find a song we like and just use it!

[evilcowgod]

Re: Simfile downloading....illegal?

Don't you have to get permission from the artist to upload a simfile in the first palce?

[flooger]

Re: Simfile downloading....illegal?

Don't you have to get permission from the artist to upload a simfile in the first palce?

Thats to get it into FFR

[rshadow8888]

Re: Simfile downloading....illegal?

you are supposed to...
however, no one does.

[Tasselfoot]

Re: Simfile downloading....illegal?

it's a highly debated topic in the "inner circle".... but the simfile database is an extremely high traffic area of our site, and right now, FFR is one of the biggest places to get and host random simfiles. bemanistyle being the other large one.

so..... as long as the charts aren't copyrighted ones, like Konami or Roxor originals.... we're ok. unless an artist specifically complains about it, in which case we're very willing to remove those specific files. although AFAIK, it's only happened once.

[flooger]

Re: Simfile downloading....illegal?

oooh ok....BTW what does AFAIK mean?

[Tasselfoot]

Re: Simfile downloading....illegal?

google is your answer for everything.

[flooger]

Re: Simfile downloading....illegal?

Once again I can not comprehend the mightyness that is Tasselfoot.

[Squeek]

Re: Simfile downloading....illegal?

He said to look it up.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=afaik

[flooger]

Re: Simfile downloading....illegal?

He said to look it up.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=afaik

I know what he meant. I meant I just cant comprehend his awsomeness lol.

[solopro]

Re: Simfile downloading....illegal?

Can't we get more Kyle Ward songs into the game? Like a Disconnected?

Preferably Disconnected Disco.

[lumphoboextreme]

Re: Simfile downloading....illegal?

downloading anything seems to be illegal these days. >_>