Fett's Vette

[nwprtsmkr]

Re: Fett's Vette

All I know is that this is a public site, making the music public. Same with avitars. The person above has Stephen Colbert for theirs. Stephen Colbert gave Comedy Central permission to use his image, not that single person in these forums. Same goes with all art/avitar that isn't original. The internet was made for sharing information (Or for pr0n, depends on if you listen to Avenue Q xD), and people get upset about the sharing of information. Here is the question though: The artist says it is for FFR use only, that I can't have it. So FFR keeps the files tucked away. Last time I checked there were THOUSANDS of programs that will record sound that plays through your speakers. But what do I know? I'm just a noob ^_^

[Izzy]

Re: Fett's Vette

Ya, getting any of the music is easy. But the step charts is less easy. Still synth wants ffr files on ffr exclusively. Just because he can.. well try.

[devonin]

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Just because it is easy to do something illegal doesn't mean it's not illegal or suddenly becomes okay because you can do it.

There's a disclaimer on the simfile database that says the content isn't actively or heavily moderated, and puts the onus on artists to see where their music has been used. If any artist was notified that their songs were being used without permission and contacted FFR, those songs would all be deleted from the database.

Basically, the simfile database is banking on fair use, and the fact that nobody profits from a song appearing in the database for others to download to given them justification to put the onus on the artist to complain.

But don't think that if someone came along and said "Hey get my songs out of that free database" that they wouldn't vanish very quickly.

Yes there are programs that can record the song as it comes out of your speakers, and there are programs that can pull the MP3 right out of the flash embedding and save it. But there are also programs to log all your keystrokes and get your credit card number. Just because there's a program for it doesn't mean it's automatically okay to use that program.

Between permissions issues with artists and record labels, and Synth's desire to keep the stepfiles on FFR unique to FFR, it seems pretty clear that the spirit and letter of the rules tell you to -not- attempt to get exact copies of the MP3s or Stepcharts in FFR.

Every artist that is okay with their music being downloaded will have their music freely downloadable on their own websites, and the global permissions thread has a giant pile of websites belonging to artists who gave permission for their music to be used, and that's pretty much the only "allowed" means of getting FFR songs.

[rushyrulz]

Re: Fett's Vette

If you want to take the time to get a similar MP3 and copy all the arrows from the FFR file into SM, go ahead, just don't upload it anywhere.

[Tasselfoot]

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If an artist (or simfile author for that matter) contacts us wanting us to remove a song or songs from the DB, we will.

As has been mentioned, we don't want the STEPFILE being public... the mp3, while we do care about that, the responsibility is on the uploader for the DB.