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redviper
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0.  Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 3:26 pm Post subject: Isn't Stepmania Illegal??? |
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I mean, It is basically a copy of DDR and kinda defeats the purpouse of buying the game when you can DL for free and buy a converter. Doesn't that make it illegal. Plus with the music liscencing crap.
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k//eternal
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| 1. Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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Sure, it's illegal in the sense that .mp3 files are illegal. You own any .mp3 files? Same crime, pal.
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spoonsman
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| 2. Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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I'm assuming that if you have official songs and don't have home versions with those songs on them, then they are illegal. Also some skins display Konami trademarked logos, etc.
As for a completely original skin with completley original songs, I'm not quite sure. At least they aren't selling it.
I'd also like to point out yet again that any DDR arcade game other than the two USA mixes are illegal if played in America. Even if they are the rare legit kits, they aren't for sale or use outside of Japan. |
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TJ of Team Fatass
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| 3. Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not sure if the program itself is illegal, but if you have the MP3's without owning rights to them, (ie, home releases or soundtracks) then it's illegal...
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k//eternal
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| 4. Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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The program, which is something that floats arrows upward that you have to hit, isn't illegal, or else Pump would get sued to hell for ripping off DDR.
The only copyrighted thing, I believe, is the music, and on some occasions, the art. If you own the home version or the soundtrack, it's perfectly legal.
How many people buy CD's for every .mp3 they own, though?
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spoonsman
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| 5. Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| k//eternal wrote: | | The program, which is something that floats arrows upward that you have to hit, isn't illegal, or else Pump would get sued to hell for ripping off DDR. |
Ya think? |
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godai
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| 6. Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 1:06 am Post subject: |
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| i couldn't care less if it were illegal |
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Soypancho
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| 7. Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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It didn't stop me from buying MAX2, or going to the arcades. I am just one guy though...
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k//eternal
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| 8. Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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Whoa. I guess I was mistaken o_o;
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k//eternal
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| 10. Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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True, but if you own .mp3 files that you don't have the actual CD for, you're in just about as much trouble, theoretically.
Really, though, it's no big deal.
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| 11. Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 7:48 pm Post subject: To Spoonsman |
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Spoonsman, your icon looks like a penis eating a leaaf.
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A Secret Pudding
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| 12. Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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It's definitely not something Konami would endorse, but they're pretty much powerless to stop it.
Just about the only thing they can begin to do is send cease-and-desist letters to specific websites (see Bemanistyle), and even then another source will pop up in its place.
As for Japanese arcade machines being for play only in Japan? Frankly, Japanese regional regulations don't have much (if any) power outside of Japan's borders.
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spoonsman
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| 13. Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Tachyon wrote: | | As for Japanese arcade machines being for play only in Japan? Frankly, Japanese regional regulations don't have much (if any) power outside of Japan's borders. |
Even IF that was true, the vast majority of arcade machines have bootleg kits anyway. I don't know much about international copyright law, so I can't really give a much better response.
My avatar is a naked mole rat, though now I can see it does somewhat look like a penis. With eyes. |
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