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Sho' nuff.

Again, its only 'too bad' until it applies to you.
You do realize that there are people right here and now on this board that want to make a living doing something like music or art, and you're telli ...

Yeah, we know. You don't give a poopy about copyright laws...until the day you need them to protect anything creative that you might come up with and think is pretty nifty. You'll like 'em then. That i ...

Yes, I don't see why Konami would say it was ok for you to download all the mp3's instead of buying the Dancemania CD's....

Didn't you hear, Spike... COREY said so..you know...MAX 300 GUY?

Money is money, they get it, they don't. We can argue the importance of unit sale revenue all day, just don't forget your hardass words when someone NARCs on you, or one of the RIAA's bills go through ...

I'm not sure if Konami has enforceable copyrights on the step patterns, but the Mp3s certainly are illegal.

How do you kiss buttocks when talking about copyright law?

I'm sure he's a great and trustworthy soul, but it doesn't get official license. Or maybe it does, I don't know. Maybe he's got official permission from all those artists tucked away in his inbox.

So you asked Konami and they said it was okay, huh?
How about Carl Douglas, Chumbawamba, Roxette, and all the other artists who specifically licensed their music to Konami for exclusive use in the Be ...

Everything you said was correct, except I would just like to point out that most recording artists(the actualy people who sing and play the instruments, not the manager/producer whatever) makes betwee ...

Everybody says that there is a way "I see it" which somehow protects them from the fact that it is against the law...until the police come a knocking.

Note, I don't say "wrong", only "against the l ...

Sales have(okay, as of 2000, when I still read the sales sheets, hehe) been going up, something like 10% a year.
Proponents of the RIAA say that, despite the fact that they are making more revenue, ...

They are too one-tracked to think about good ways to capitalize on it. The samet hing happend over 20 years ago when the home audio tape was released to the public. People started making copies of al ...

For one, I don't see how I can show you a company's public policy on distribution of material, and then have you say that they are somehow lying. Don't forget that these rules mostly apply to games th ...

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But it certainly would ruin the whole ad campaign on the site to buy the DDR soundtracks, wouldnt it?

Dang right, OggVorbis is the shiznat, and its rapidly become very well supported. I figure the video game industry will have a field day with it.

Pansyman, you are overlooking what you get when you buy a CD.
You do not get the music. You get the plastic that the CD is made out of , and a limited license to view/listen to the material contained ...

MP3 technology is not illegal...unless you are a coder and try to make money by making a program which makes MP3s, then you owe royalty on the Codec.

Owning MP3's are not illegal. Engaging in the d ...