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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-22 18:10:40


At 4/21/15 06:12 PM, AeronMusic wrote: sigh
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/620691
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/620690
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/620692

Removed. I also went through the rest of his profile and removed all the others that I could find which are stolen. The ones I left are ones which seem to be made by him (including that remix which is, at least ostensibly, made from scratch).

At 4/22/15 05:23 PM, LiquidOoze wrote: Came across this:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/147564
It says in the description: 'Take note that I have arranged one of these myself but... Due to certain issues I am not able to access the playback file... It is for the most part exactly the same as this... It is just that I stumbled upon this recording and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to share one of the most inspiring classical pieces of our century performed by a very extraordinary Brass Choir...'

I guess he simply says that it's not his?

I guess so! I removed the submission but didn't ban the guy since his last submission was 6 years ago so who cares haha.

Fun sidenote: When I saw "2009" written down near his last submission I thought to myself "oh, that must be around 3 years ago". Then it hit me that we're in 2015. Time y u move so fast.


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-22 18:41:06


At 4/22/15 06:10 PM, Step wrote: I guess so! I removed the submission but didn't ban the guy since his last submission was 6 years ago so who cares haha.

What a shame, eh? I was hoping for a legitimate arrangement/performance of that piece. Adagio was a favorite of mine.

Fun sidenote: When I saw "2009" written down near his last submission I thought to myself "oh, that must be around 3 years ago". Then it hit me that we're in 2015. Time y u move so fast.

Same here! I find myself seeing coming soon and "2016" in the same sentence. Freaks me out.


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-23 04:42:53


stolen from here :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blA7epJJaR4

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-23 13:10:04


At 4/23/15 04:42 AM, ForeverBound wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/620943

Removed

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-23 19:51:18


Found one, not sure what this is, but this kind of audio is the kind from either thebetteraudioportal or soundcloud.


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-23 20:05:58


More and more...
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621046 Obvious
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621045 Very suspicious tags.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621044 Says they didn't make it, and obviously he/she didn't.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621043 'Im using it in a level for gd' as expected.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621042 'I'm going to use it in a geometry dash song'
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621041 Spanish stuff, but it's a song by Skrillex
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621039 Doesn't belong to the uploader.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621034 ^
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621036 Seems very suspicious, but I'm not quite sure.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621033 Opening theme for something.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/620861 In spanish, but I can speak a little spanish and that obviously says Geometry Dash in the desc. This wouldn't be so horrible, except that these are literally all of the most recent unscouted uploads. That many in a row are all fake, that's messed up.


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-24 13:32:29


Uploader says 'credit to frank klepacki', which happens to be the composer of the Command & Conquer music. I've never played that game, however I've also noticed that this guy's audio is all different genres and he doesn't say anything about it. I have doubts about all of his tracks, but I don't recognize any of them.


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-24 15:15:56 (edited 2015-04-24 15:16:54)


Thanks guys!

At 4/23/15 07:51 PM, SpeirMint wrote: Found one, not sure what this is, but this kind of audio is the kind from either thebetteraudioportal or soundcloud.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621049

Well, I removed it whether it's his or not. It has copyrighted samples from SpongeBob (I even remember the episode which the quotes came from). His other one took a bit of digging but I found it with the same name uploaded on Newgrounds by another artist.

At 4/23/15 08:05 PM, SpeirMint wrote: More and more...
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621045 Very suspicious tags.

Couldn't find anything on that one but his other track was stolen so I'm not giving him the benefit of the doubt.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621036 Seems very suspicious, but I'm not quite sure.

It's a Skrillex song.

At 4/24/15 01:32 PM, LiquidOoze wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/620547
Uploader says 'credit to frank klepacki', which happens to be the composer of the Command & Conquer music. I've never played that game, however I've also noticed that this guy's audio is all different genres and he doesn't say anything about it. I have doubts about all of his tracks, but I don't recognize any of them.

Yeah that whole profile's full of stolen stuff. Audio submissions unpublished, and account banned.


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-24 17:31:14


May I have a mod help me with the legitimacy of this track? I can't help but feel that not much was done... the track is a remix Toni Ley's One Foot On The Other Side. (

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxmTAcumG90

) The only real difference is around the 1:03 mark. The rest just sounds as if it was just pitch shifted from the original.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-24 18:56:52


Legend says that every [insert period here] I report rule-breaking songs here.

Description saying "this song is awesome" = Probably stolen

Probably from Skrillex ("or something")

Its from NoCopyrightSounds, so it would be legitimate, but it's not the case of usage of non-copyrighted samples, instead its a whole song from it, so its still stolen.

Title + Uploader name containing "GMD" = Suspicious

Description has little to no good content at all, so it gets suspicious since it is common on most thieves

Yeah, very few this time.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-25 06:32:19 (edited 2015-04-25 06:32:40)


At 4/20/15 01:45 PM, Step wrote:
At 4/19/15 11:23 PM, JandreParis wrote: Banhammah!
You know it!

At 4/20/15 01:43 AM, 6359 wrote: Whoo, The GD developer added an algorithm that automatically makes music with stolen music unfeaturable. Hopefully we'll see a decrease of stolen music soon.
How do you know this? Did you get some kind of error when you tried to play a featured level with stolen music? That sounds like very good news!

At 4/20/15 01:33 PM, Jernemies wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/620352
Is this allowed? I don't think it is. One would assume the vocals are under a strict license or something. Idk, just bringing this up so that you mods are aware in case you don't check R4R that often.
I'm afraid it isn't allowed. I hate banning people for something as small as using a copyrighted sample non-commercially, when there are so many tracks on here that are outright stolen, but at the moment we're very strict on copyright, at least until the changes to how the Audio Portal handles licensing are implemented.

Thanks for the heads up.

Sorreh for late reply...
I played a few old levels with skrillex music; but now they're unfeatured AND the song is undownloadable! I checked; it stays true as long as the song isn't on newgrounds anymore.

The developer also made an announcement where he apologized to the level creators, but emphasized that the real NG music is what's allowed.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-25 08:02:06


Its Pico Day 2015! And how do I celebrate it?

Answer: Reporting MOAR stolen music.

Stolen from Avicii

Only-for-GMD-use song.

Only-for-GMD-use song.

Patent nonsense description + usage of a Windows XP sound = Probably stolen.

Only-for-GMD-use song.

Description = Instant suspicion.

See description.

Those hashtags + Nonsense description = Suspicious.

Only-for-GMD-use song.

Why does he need to steal DJ-Nate's songs if they are already available here? Does he really want to get scouted or what?

Stolen from TLS (The Living Tombstone just in case you ask)

Dunno about this one? Still favorited cause I liked it.

Description translates to "Reuploaded by me SOAP229". Looks like someone is evading bans.

See description.

Title makes it suspicious.

Nonsense description = Instant suspicion.

Description makes it suspicious.

Stolen per title.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-25 08:19:39


http://randomsongs.newgrounds.com/audio/

Has a bunch of songs that he doesn't own.

Now that's out of the way, here is what I have found:

The people who steal this song must be idiots.

Don't want 2 Chainz suing Tom Fulp

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-25 10:21:25


Don't know spanish... doubt he/she owns it anyway

I love this song. And I would love it to be banned

Liar

A good song until you find out everyone else thinks it is a good song.

Can you tell me who's song that is if you know it. The Geometry Dash community needs it

F-777 - Deadlocked

TMN43 - Ultimate Destruction

Skrillex - First of The Year

Hexagon Force with a surprise. Do not listen if you are scared of screams

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-25 10:27:31


At 4/23/15 07:51 PM, SpeirMint wrote: Found one, not sure what this is, but this kind of audio is the kind from either thebetteraudioportal or soundcloud.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621049

Zanzilaz made it. The creator also I think uploaded it to Newgrounds :P

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-25 10:33:22


At 4/15/15 06:57 AM, Step wrote: Thank you for being one of the RARE Geometry Dash players that actually reads the rules!

I am one of those players too! I use to disobey the rules, but I felt horrible doing it and removed the audio that I posted.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-25 13:03:07


Thanks everyone. Lots of stuff to go through!

At 4/25/15 08:02 AM, lucas59 wrote: Its Pico Day 2015! And how do I celebrate it?
Answer: Reporting MOAR stolen music.

Oh boy.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621308
Those hashtags + Nonsense description = Suspicious.

Hm... this guy seems legit, but he has some really high-quality stuff on his profile. I can't for the life of me find anything incriminating, so I think he's actually a legitimate music producer.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621301
Why does he need to steal DJ-Nate's songs if they are already available here? Does he really want to get scouted or what?

I know right... I don't get that. Why post music that's already here on Newgrounds? If they want to use it in Geometry Dash then they can just type in the ID from the original source, rather than reuploading it. Ah well.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621300
Stolen from TLS (The Living Tombstone just in case you ask)

I have become VERY accustomed to TLS now, don't worry!

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621297
Dunno about this one? Still favorited cause I liked it.

This is the original track by Zedd.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621285
Nonsense description = Instant suspicion.

Yeah that song is My Heart by Different Heaven. One of the songs that gets stolen the most. I instantly recognised it.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621283
Description makes it suspicious.

I can't find any hits on Shazam/SoundHound, nor is googling helping. However, I am not prepared to believe that this quality of music will be submitted to Newgrounds by an absolute nobody who has Spanish author's comments that are along the lines of "this song is very good". I'm going to remove the track and ban him. Everything is reversible if by some miracle he is the original composer and he contacts me about it.

At 4/25/15 08:19 AM, H20studios wrote: A whole lot of stolen audio.

Ohhhhh boy.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/594889
The people who steal this song must be idiots.

This is actually one of the rare occasions where the account has both stolen work and legitimately original compositions. Interesting. Anyway, unpublished the unoriginal stuff and kept his own works up on his profile.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/597569
Don't want 2 Chainz suing Tom Fulp

This guy's funny. His profile has stolen songs with author's comments such as "It's not like I made this." or "This isn't mine. Do not take down!".

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/614656
Don't know spanish... doubt he/she owns it anyway

Indeed. Some Five Nights at Freddy's song.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/612246

That one's legit. However, I checked his profile and it was half full of stolen stuff and half full of his original audio. Cleaned that up.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/615446
I love this song. And I would love it to be banned

Lol yeah that's a pretty fun song. Advantage of cleaning up Newgrounds audio: you occasionally find some pretty awesome stolen music.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/619554
Can you tell me who's song that is if you know it. The Geometry Dash community needs it

Not ringing any bells for me I'm afraid!

At 4/25/15 12:31 PM, Signorombra wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/619786
the user only copies songs and should be banned.

and more:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621270
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/620847
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/618231

She seems to be posting covers of herself singing over instrumentals which she didn't make. This would be acceptable, as long as the instrumentals are under a licence which allows reuse. I'll contact her for more info.


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-25 19:00:53


Moar only-for-GMD-use songs.

Title makes it suspicious.

Stolen per description.

Stolen from Knife Party.

Description may indicate song isn't his/her/whatever.

OMG! STILL WITH THE FNAF THING! Contains a piano thing at the start then goes the FNAF song by TLS.

Description translates to "Credits to droideka"; stolen per description.

Oh boy, the uploader really admitted it in description.

Stolen per title plus heard it on a The Impossible Game custom level (NOT Geometry Dash).

Only-for-GMD-use.

-Turn Down For What? -Turn down to steal songs!

-Turn Down For What? -"¡Ve abajo para robar canciones!" (I did that pun cause of the spanish description)

Only-for-GMD-use song.

Uploader admits it on description.

Stolen from RoughMath.

Stolen from Evasium (dunno if thats a game, movie or music composer but whatever)

-F*** copyright XD -You f*** copyright, you get f***ed yourself. Heard it on a spanish YouTuber's intro.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-25 21:44:09 (edited 2015-04-25 21:45:45)


Got a lot this time! In fact, I divided them in sections.

Ones that I instantly found out the person stole:

This dumbutt thinks he can get away by changing the title of the song!

Exclusive track in Waterflame's "Showdown" album

1 billion other people would put that in this section. (Literally)

On NG already

Let me just cry myself to sleep real quick.

Not sure:

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-25 23:34:29 (edited 2015-04-25 23:35:02)


At 4/25/15 09:44 PM, H20studios wrote: Not sure:

Yup, that's definitely infringing. It's literally Starfish by Savant.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-26 13:45:24 (edited 2015-04-26 13:47:17)


Welp. Yet another from the R4R thread.

An entire acappella from Snoop.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-26 20:02:45


Says it belongs to a non NGer. http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621698

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-26 20:04:17


And this is stolen from the Hatsune Miku version. Nothing changed.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-27 11:48:06


Other Korean person... hm, sounds legit.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-27 11:49:42


This --

And all tracks by the same user. He's uploaded four, I believe, and he even admits he doesn't own that music.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-27 16:53:16


At 9/24/14 07:56 AM, BrokenDeck wrote: In this thread, report any Audio Portal submissions which break the rules detailed in the Audio Portal Guidelines.

Here is a copyrighted song it was by tryhardninja:
The copyrighted is here

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-28 12:27:36


Hello ! I found these ones :

Original from Nights Into Dreams (the uploader admits it in the author comments). He also reuploaded the opening from Megaman 2, apparently.

Original from Bionic Commando Rearmed.


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-29 15:36:53 (edited 2015-04-29 15:37:47)


That song is ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE to even be acceptable at the NG Audio Portal. Not only that, it is also stolen from

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPs5xUTvoHo

(uploader even admits it). It has been sitting here since 12 December 2014 without anyone reporting it.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-29 20:24:48


At 4/29/15 03:36 PM, lucas59 wrote: That song is ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE to even be acceptable at the NG Audio Portal.

This thread is proof that people don't read rules and it's sad. Is there some kind of punishment people get for violating this rule? Aside from just getting their stuff taken down...

^^ Taken from some Metroid game - probably X?

^^ sampled from Tv sho

this guy has some original music but also just random samples of stuff that's not his.


I'm a noob.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-30 20:56:08 (edited 2015-04-30 20:58:37)


At 4/26/15 08:02 PM, CGA-999 wrote: Says it belongs to a non NGer. http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621698

I had a post here. I found out that it was no use being here anyway.