It's unfair for the artist to not gain anything for their works thus making it justified but the way it is done and mostly cause of grudge is just terrible
Meah wrote:
It's unfair for the artist to not gain anything for their works thus making it justified but the way it is done and mostly cause of grudge is just terrible
AgreeRailey2 wrote:
it's neither Taiga's nor Sotarks fault. It's the fault of years of continued sloppy copyright policy.
You walk into a restaurant and order a full menu. After you've finished, you stand up and leave, without paying. However you do leave the restaurant owner a letter. After a couple minutes, they notice that you left without paying. The restaurant owner is about to call the police on you, when he notices the letter on the now vacant dinner table. He opens it and starts reading.Deva wrote:
So every time I download a map someone loses $1 (on average) because I didn't buy the song?
If someone took osu and the songs my osu folder contains from me I wouldn't cry over it and much less pay for the songs so I could listen to them once again.
Rather than a way to steal money from artists, osu is a way of artists getting free publicity. If someone doesn't intend to pay for their music they aren't going to pay for their music. So basically no one is really at loss. You can't steal money that never existed in the first place but you sure can talk about an artist and their songs and give them free publicity for well free.
if you think I'm wrong fite me
Deva wrote:
Rather than a way to steal money from artists, osu is a way of artists getting free publicity. If someone doesn't intend to pay for their music they aren't going to pay for their music. So basically no one is really at loss. You can't steal money that never existed in the first place but you sure can talk about an artist and their songs and give them free publicity for well free
Well if that entire menu or lets say one dish for simplicitys sake, had to be prepared only once and it could feed the entire population simultaneously over and over again then your analogy would somewhat make sense, but that's not the case.Railey2 wrote:
You walk into a restaurant and order a full menu. After you've finished, you stand up and leave, without paying. However you do leave the restaurant owner a letter. After a couple minutes, they notice that you left without paying. The restaurant owner is about to call the police on you, when he notices the covert on the now vacant dinner table. He opens it and starts reading.
"Dear Mr. Restaurant owner,
the food was great! I'll make sure to tell my friends and leave you a good review on yelp. That should more than make up for the price that I should have payed for your product. I'll make sure to eat at your restaurants again soon!
Regards, Deva.".
The owner of the restaurant is satisfied and looks forward to your next visi...
wait no that's bullshit and so is your entire view on the topic.
It's not that someone loses money, it's that they have a claim on your money since you're already using their product even though you should have paid for it.
And I can assure you that there are companies that will absolutely press that claim. Let's picture another hypothetical scenario, a more serious one:
The Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Group are suing peppy for creating a platform that illegally distributes their copyrighted media, while peppy is fully aware of everything illegal that's been going on and does nothing against it. There's a lot of money involved, we're talking millions of dollars. Do you think peppy is gonna get away saying that he paid with "publicity", so it's all fine?
I don't think so.
Maybe you could make a deal like that with individual artists, but not with multi billion dollar cooperations. And these cooperations.. if you cross them the wrong way, they'll fuck you hard. They'll fuck you on autopilot, they won't even think about it. They've fucked many others before, they have entire divisions, hundreds of employees that are dedicated just to fucking people. You have no idea what you're dealing with.
why pay for something if you can get it for free?N0thingSpecial wrote:
On a corporate level I don’t think they will think that way, they hire their own branding team
N0thingSpecial wrote:
In the end it’s still intellectual property that the owner can take it down because of this stupid concept called rights
Stefan wrote:
N0thingSpecial wrote:
In the end it’s still intellectual property that the owner can take it down because of this stupid concept called rights
Yeah, it really sucks people can actually fight against stealing and replication of their content so people cannot profit from their effort and creations. /sarcasmoff
We know very well why exactly it is a thing that songs gets DMCA'd in osu!.
the music industry has indeed moved past 1 download = 1 sale.Ephemeral wrote:
There's not really much merit in discussing 'doomsday' scenarios like these. osu! is fully compliant with the DMCA and acts very swiftly to honor the will of rightsholders where it becomes apparent that their work is being used without permission in the game.
That being said, the music industry has developed well beyond the past of "1 download = 1 sale" - it is trivial for even young children to find ways to 'download' tracks from major artists these days. Piracy is sort of a cultural institution embedded into the way the internet is, and that isn't really going to ever change. The people who desire to purchase a given work will do so, or pay for services that allow them to access said content freely, and those who do not will just pirate the works to begin with.
osu!'s monetization is an absolute pittance for a service of its size, it doesn't offer ANY ads, it has no major partnerships or sponsors, the entire game is more or less a community funded endeavour. The tracks accompanying beatmaps are of barely 'acceptable' quality by music purchase standards (hence why anything above 192kbps is disallowed in a beatmapset). We're positioned quite firmly to view the tracks as a secondary necessity to any beatmap set, not their distribution as the main draw, if that makes sense.
To swing back onto the topic at hand, all of the Featured Artist tracks are fully licensed for usage in osu! and are 150% safe for use for mapping. There's over 500 of them at this point, and we're in talks with a variety of artists (and music labels) to gain blanket usage rights for their works. I'd say as is, we likely have a library of licensed music that rivals or perhaps even exceeds many other rhythm games out there, and it is only going to get larger as time goes by.
Leave the worrying about such eventualities to us and just enjoy the game, yeah? Licensing and whatnot is a great big legal tangle and the very definition of grey-area stuff, just know that we're acutely aware of these kind of things and have been working quite hard to keep things moving forward.
the map as in a particular configuration of circles, sliders and spinners, without music or anything?pineappleman wrote:
Well, speaking of copyrights, say that using the unlicensed "track" for the beatmap is forbidden, so we can't use most of the beatmaps uploaded so far.
Then, who has the copyright of the "map"s? Mappers? Track creater? Nobody?
I know it's a little irrelevant, but I really should know
Deva wrote:
N0thingSpecial wrote:
On a corporate level I don’t think they will think that way, they hire their own branding team
why pay for something if you can get it for free?
Everything we do here pales in comparison to the economic damage that this game causes the music industry.This is a laughably wrong statement. No one uses osu! as a means to pirate low-bitrate crappy audio. If someone were to pirate music, they would use one of the multitude of means available that are actually intended for pirating music. Rather if anything, osu! benefits the music industry by exposing people to a broad range of genres of artists they may have otherwise never heard of. Copyright is simply an unjust means of maintaining monopoly control over non-scare resources.
^ this + ephemeral's post really express how i think about it as well.N0thingSpecial wrote:
but as a mapper if I did something to anger some stranger on the internet to copyright strike my map, I would re-evaluate my mapping career instead of victimising myself
again, tell that to a multi billion dollar cooperation. They'll laugh in your face and then they'll sue the shit out of you. They won't care about your ancap ideals, or whatever the thing is that you cobbled together in your mind.B1rd wrote:
Everything we do here pales in comparison to the economic damage that this game causes the music industry.This is a laughably wrong statement. No one uses osu! as a means to pirate low-bitrate crappy audio. If someone were to pirate music, they would use one of the multitude of means available that are actually intended for pirating music. Rather if anything, osu! benefits the music industry by exposing people to a broad range of genres of artists they may have otherwise never heard of. Copyright is simply an unjust means of maintaining monopoly control over non-scare resources.
So what do you suggest? Just take down the whole game? You keep saying all this sensationalist stuff about multibillion dollar companies but not coming up with any practical solutions. What's the point of that? I'm sure there are a ton of copyrighted songs, and anime opening videos or other music videos, etc. What can we do? Nothing realistic without destroying the game, I'd say. We can't get approval from every artist or company and can't realistically take down everything that is not "strictly legal".Railey2 wrote:
again, tell that to a multi billion dollar cooperation. They'll laugh in your face and then they'll sue the shit out of you. They won't care about your ancap ideals, or whatever the thing is that you cobbled together in your mind.
Whether or not it was your intent to pirate music through osu, as a matter of fact you already did.
"But if I wanted to pirate, I'd go to bit torrent!"
"But you did download 100 copyrighted songs through the osu client, they're saved on your computer?"
"well..."
It's funny because I can almost see you in front of a judge, saying your line.
"Your honor, Copyright is simply an unjust means of maintaining monopoly control over non-scare resources. Therefore, I reserve the right to download music wherever I want, whenever I want, without paying for any of it! Thank you."
That'd be the day, corporations spending tens of thousands in legal fees suing osu! players with no assets bar a few anime dakimakuras. Another laughable scenario that wouldn't happen. No one has anything to gain from taking legal action against osu! or its players. Rather, it seems the downfall is coming from one vindictive manchild who would rather destroy the experience for everyone than not get his own way. And with you slavishly defending the copyright practices of corrupt corporations and governments, you're like two peas in a pod.Railey2 wrote:
again, tell that to a multi billion dollar cooperation. They'll laugh in your face and then they'll sue the shit out of you. They won't care about your ancap ideals, or whatever the thing is that you cobbled together in your mind.
Whether or not it was your intent to pirate music through osu, as a matter of fact you already did.
"But if I wanted to pirate, I'd go to bit torrent!"
"But you did download 100 copyrighted songs through the osu client, they're saved on your computer?"
"well..."
It's funny because I can almost see you in front of a judge, saying your line.
"Your honor, Copyright is simply an unjust means of maintaining monopoly control over non-scare resources. Therefore, I reserve the right to download music wherever I want, whenever I want, without paying for any of it! Thank you."
Ok, seems reasonably. I think another thing that is an issue is the fact that songs are downloaded as straight up .mp3 files. Maybe it's possible to introduce an encrypted file format for songs that only the osu client can read and have songs be downloaded in that format instead. Not sure how feasible it is though, I'm not a programmer.Railey2 wrote:
take down the stuff that the game could be immediately nuked for, anything that comes from major, major labels, at the least.
Keeping songs that are only protected by minor labels could be a calculated risk that's worth taking.
Slowly expanding the group of featured artists that eph talked about.
Wow, dramatizing.Railey2 wrote:
And these cooperations.. if you cross them the wrong way, they'll fuck you hard. They'll fuck you on autopilot, they won't even think about it. They've fucked many others before, they have entire divisions, hundreds of employees that are dedicated just to fucking people. You have no idea what you're dealing with.
As Eph said, leave it to the people running the show and don't be a reddit armchair counselor / lawyer. Doesn't really suit you well considering you called out those "hobby psychologists" for doing the same thing.Railey2 wrote:
Anyway, I only made this thread because I thought that the communities response to the DMCA-strike was hilariously backwards.
What this guy said.B1rd wrote:
Rather, it seems the downfall is coming from one vindictive manchild who would rather destroy the experience for everyone than not get his own way. And with you slavishly defending the copyright practices of corrupt corporations and governments, you're like two peas in a pod.
you say that, but I've been fucked by them before. 1000€ fee for downloading a movie, not kidding. It's not dramatized, it's very real. When a company gets big enough to have a legal division, it starts operating like that as long as the cost of their legal employees is lower than the fees said employees will bring in. Ask anyone who has ever had to deal with them.Rayne wrote:
Wow, dramatizing.Railey2 wrote:
And these cooperations.. if you cross them the wrong way, they'll fuck you hard. They'll fuck you on autopilot, they won't even think about it. They've fucked many others before, they have entire divisions, hundreds of employees that are dedicated just to fucking people. You have no idea what you're dealing with.
As Eph said, leave it to the people running the show and don't be a reddit armchair counselor / lawyer. Doesn't really suit you well considering you called out those "hobby psychologists" for doing the same thing.
that sounds like an excellent idea. At least it would keep people from ripping off the music and sharing them further, although I'm really not sure how that would affect thing legally. I'm out of my depth there.Wishes wrote:
Ok, seems reasonably. I think another thing that is an issue is the fact that songs are downloaded as straight up .mp3 files. Maybe it's possible to introduce an encrypted file format for songs that only the osu client can read and have songs be downloaded in that format instead. Not sure how feasible it is though, I'm not a programmer.Railey2 wrote:
take down the stuff that the game could be immediately nuked for, anything that comes from major, major labels, at the least.
Keeping songs that are only protected by minor labels could be a calculated risk that's worth taking.
Slowly expanding the group of featured artists that eph talked about.
Those letters you're talking about are just fishing for easy money. Obviously some people are scared it'll go to court and they'll pay the unjust fee. Most of the time they won't take it any further if you choose to ignore it because they can't possibly keep up with the amount of letters they're sending and take everyone of them to court.Railey2 wrote:
ou say that, but I've been fucked by them before. 1000€ fee for downloading a movie, not kidding. It's not dramatized, it's very real. When a company gets big enough to have a legal division, it starts operating like that as long as the cost of their legal employees is lower than the fees said employees will bring in. Ask anyone who has ever had to deal with them.
I think it depends on your country law. Here is polish shithole user is required to know what he is downloading, doesn't matter if it's a game modification, movie, music etc. For example, if I downloaded a game mod, installed it, and somehow, it contained a copyrighted material, I am responsible for it and will be sentenced for breaking copyright law. It doesn't matter that initially I didn't knew about that.Edgar_Figaro wrote:
The one thing I worry about is whether or not I could get in trouble by downloading maps from this game. Like if they go after Osu and I downloaded a bunch of beatmaps that I had no idea we’re to copy written music. Could I face fines and be brought to court as well or would I be somewhat protected?