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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-30 22:14:04 (edited 2015-04-30 22:15:12)


Spink01's audio is stolen, presumably for GD levels. Isn't scouted either. @Step will want to take a looksie, me thinks.


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-04-30 23:37:22


At 4/30/15 10:14 PM, EDM364 wrote: Spink01's audio is stolen, presumably for GD levels. Isn't scouted either. @Step will want to take a looksie, me thinks.

Found more stolen audio. Loads.

Stolen from Sonic Heroes

Copyrighted samples from Bass Cannon. And it doesn't even sound great.

MonsterCat remix. Most of his other audio is stolen, so I'm pretty sure this is too.

Sample from Oprah, which I'm not sure is allowed or not. Track is not in the right genre either.

"Song necessary for my own geometry dash level"

This one has samples of Skrillex and Sirah. Shame NG has a no tolerance policy on copyrighted samples. This is a good remix.

This one has vocal samples of Wiz Khalifa, sounds like. And it's not original work. May want to check this guy for more stuff. Geometry dash username makes me suspicious.

GD. "Made by other Korean person"

More GD cuts. Review said "I know it's not yours"

Self explanatory.

Says it isn't his in the tags.

Says it isn't his in summary.

Same.

"Not mine"

Illegal midi rip. Only changed instruments. Has this really been here since '06?

Says the vocals aren't his. Not sure if they're copyrighted. I also recognize some of the break samples from other songs. It may be clean though. Double-check me.

Self explanatory

"clip from the Warriors is not mine"

Vocals from Paramore. Obviously illegal.

Mashup

Magix Music Maker used.

Says vocals aren't his.

Sounds like a midi rip.

Eminem.

My friend made it, my ass.


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-01 01:08:57


Description says it all.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-01 18:03:39 (edited 2015-05-01 18:05:50)


Look who's coming back for some more service! ME!!!

Spanish + Geometry Dash = Copier 90% of the time

F-777 - Deadlocked.

Skrillex - Bangarang

Instantly can tell that he doesn't own it!

The same song as the one above

Not sure about.

Shadow Mario's theme from Super Mario Sunshine

You decide what we should do!

...

I am not sure if this is a remix because of the long title

One sad lonely robber:

http://hero0110.newgrounds.com/

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-01 18:54:58


More copyrighted samples and rule breaking.

Samples David Guetta

Same. Copyrighted samples.

Samples an advert. Reviews say it isn't original work.

Uses a David Guetta acapella. Copyrighted.

Same song, different, similarly shitty.

This one samples Adele. Shame. It's a good listen.

Also samples Adele.

This one samples Adele as well.

This one too.


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-02 03:57:18


Stolen stuffz:

Metallica:

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-02 10:03:00


Got one other lonely robber:
http://ataraxy.newgrounds.com/
He claims that he is allowed to do this because he nightcored the songs. However, as far as I know nightcoring is against the rules on this website.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-02 10:45:47 (edited 2015-05-02 10:45:57)


http://thisisthefatrat.newgrounds.com/
I'm suspicious. I don't see why Fatrat would suddenly get a NG account... Step pls halp meh.

Oh and this:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/608820

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-02 10:52:22


I was about to scout this artist, but as I did some research it turned out his only song

is stolen from a game called Rayman Raving Rabbids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sGi53xtbx0


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-02 13:40:46


Backloggg :(.

I'll chip away at this slowly. This is all I have time to do for now!

At 4/25/15 07:00 PM, lucas59 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621453
-Turn Down For What? -Turn down to steal songs!

I hate this song. Really, it's absolute garbage.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621433
Stolen from Evasium (dunno if thats a game, movie or music composer but whatever)

Seems like a YouTube channel. Either way, point is it's stolen. Taken care of!

At 4/25/15 09:44 PM, H20studios wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/617981
This dumbutt thinks he can get away by changing the title of the song!

He can call it OMFG - Salut, OMFG - Ciao, or whatever he wants, and he still won't get away with it. c:

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/616459

It seems like that HerosMusic guy was trying to actually steal music. He said he made them and changed their titles but I found them uploaded on YouTube under different aliases with hundreds of thousands of views. Well, taken care of.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/597699
Let me just cry myself to sleep real quick.

This is so relevant right now. (warning: swear words)

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/593302

Looks legitimate. There's a YouTube account associated with that music, and I can't find anything that indicates it's stolen. It isn't the kind of music I'd imagine people would steal anyway.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/612150

Stolen.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/598411

Not even going to bother checking the legitimacy of this. Nearly all of his other submissions are obviously stolen (standard Geometry Dash uploader), and with author's comments like that it'll be a miracle for him to have original music on that account.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/593490

Short description says it all!

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/595771

Stolen.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/595601

Seems too low-quality and FL-preset-y to be stolen, I think.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/599859

Can't find anything to incriminate him, plus the music isn't terribly high quality. Not sure about this either, but I'd bet it's legitimate, despite the vague author's comments.

At 4/25/15 10:46 PM, dem0lecule wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621511
Said it himself in the description he didn't make the song.

Edit: Goddamn it, another Geo Dash related.

Seems to have been taken care of already!


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-02 22:23:47


ThisIsTheFatRat is legit. See the attachment.

Meanwhile, /listen/596911 is an upload of Turn Down For What.

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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-03 07:00:37


At 4/25/15 11:31 PM, dem0lecule wrote: I usually don't rat the rule breakers out, but when I do I take them very serious.

X-Ray Dog
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/236631

That's a legitimate arrangement. The guy's a composer who I've exchanged reviews with a long time ago. It's an arrangement that just follows the original very closely. Pretty sure it's OK though!

Two Steps From Hell "Freedom Fighters"
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/221550
Hans Zimmer "Interstellar"
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/599968
Avicii vs Nicky Romero "I could be the one"
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/560346
Opaix "NO BEEF"
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/572139

Standard copyrighted sample usage. Taken care of!

Katy Perry "Last Friday Night"
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/563671

The vocal in this one is so timestretched that I can't confirm that it's from the original... I think I'll let it slide.

Ellie Goulding "Burn" (sampled some part)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGyEd0aKWZE
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/557249

Gone.

Contain voices from movie "Interstellar"
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/605273

Man, I feel really bad for removing this one. It's high-quality stuff!

At 4/26/15 01:45 PM, JandreParis wrote: Welp. Yet another from the R4R thread.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/620243
An entire acappella from Snoop.

Yup. Taken care of.

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

Yeah I recognise that song. Gone.

At 4/26/15 08:04 PM, CGA-999 wrote: And this is stolen from the Hatsune Miku version. Nothing changed.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/615046

Aaaand gone.

At 4/27/15 08:46 AM, Signorombra wrote: THIS is (kind of) totally stolen <_<
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/621412

Seems like a legitimate chiptune arrangement, except it uses copyrighted vocals from the original, so... (kind of) totally banned.

At 4/27/15 11:48 AM, Troisnyx wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/617927
Other Korean person... hm, sounds legit.

About as legit as a Nigerian prince who just offered me untold riches if I give him my bank PIN.

At 4/27/15 11:49 AM, Troisnyx wrote: This --
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/593096
And all tracks by the same user. He's uploaded four, I believe, and he even admits he doesn't own that music.

He actually had a whole profile with around a dozen stolen tracks

At 4/27/15 04:53 PM, johnvu723audio wrote: Here is a copyrighted song it was by tryhardninja:
The copyrighted is here

Indeed. Good catch. I've taken care of it!

At 4/28/15 12:27 PM, Ylmir wrote: Hello ! I found these ones :

Thanks!

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/500274
Original from Nights Into Dreams (the uploader admits it in the author comments).

Pew.

He also reuploaded the opening from Megaman 2, apparently.

Pew pew.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/500396
Original from Bionic Commando Rearmed.

Pew pew pew.

TRIPLE KILL.
At 4/29/15 03:36 PM, lucas59 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/596854
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.

Why do people even bother stealing that crap. Found some more stolen songs on his profile too.

At 4/29/15 08:24 PM, CzeryWassierSwizier wrote: 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...

Yeah, we also give them temporary bans that usually last one month, along with a ban reason to hopefully make sure they've learnt their lesson.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/447935
^^ Taken from some Metroid game - probably X?

That's Super Metroid's item fanfare! And now it's gone.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/447934
^^ sampled from Tv sho

Yup.

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

Mhmm, I went through his profile and removed the random samples. Last time he submitted was in 2011, though, so I doubt he cares about the ban I gave him haha.

At 4/30/15 10:14 PM, EDM364 wrote: Spink01's audio is stolen, presumably for GD levels. Isn't scouted either. @Step will want to take a looksie, me thinks.

Looksie has been taken. Ban has been issued.

At 4/30/15 11:37 PM, EDM364 wrote: Found more stolen audio. Loads.

*Cracks knuckles*

This one has samples of Skrillex and Sirah. Shame NG has a no tolerance policy on copyrighted samples. This is a good remix.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/557930

Considering that his other audio was stolen, I strongly doubt that one is legitimate haha.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/557930
This one has vocal samples of Wiz Khalifa, sounds like. And it's not original work. May want to check this guy for more stuff. Geometry dash username makes me suspicious.

That took a lot of work but I went through his whole profile and removed around 2/3 of it. He makes covers which is alright and all, except in a lot of the covers it was him playing over the original song, which is a no-no.

More GD cuts. Review said "I know it's not yours"
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/612853

This one was already reported earlier. It's actually legitimate, despite literally being full of suspicious stuff. The story is that he made a song called Friction and a song called Fractal a while ago. He wanted to use his own song Friction in a Geometry Dash level, and so he edited it to make it shorter and reuploaded it, but accidentally called it Fractal. This confused me for a while since I saw that the full version of Fractal sounded nothing like his edit, but it turned out what he edited was Friction, not Fractal, and just named it wrongly.

He states the VSTs he uses, has a SoundCloud account and doesn't seem to have anything suspicious-sounding in his audio. I have no idea what the review is talking about, either. It is his, as far as I know. Shazam and SoundHound brought up no hits. He just seems like a legitimate (and rather good) music producer that didn't do a good job of making himself look legitimate haha.

"Not mine"
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/469742

OK I'll be honest... he has a HUGE profile of hip hop music using samples from all over the place. I mean, they're all his own music, but with samples that aren't his, a lot of which are undoubtedly copyrighted and not allowed on Newgrounds. I don't know what to do at this point; going through it and scouring the internet for all the samples he used in every one of his hundred-odd submissions would literally take me all day x_x. @BrenTheMan @liljim what do we do with this guy?

Says the vocals aren't his. Not sure if they're copyrighted. I also recognize some of the break samples from other songs. It may be clean though. Double-check me.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/89491

That's Kate Lesing vocals. Those came from a sample pack that costs money. If he'd bought it, he'd be OK to use it, but their licence still requires that you credit the original source of the vocals, which he failed to do, so I've removed it.

Self explanatory
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/357569

Seems alright to me. Just an arrangement.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/421225
Says vocals aren't his.

Sounds like they came out of some sample pack. Can't verify their source. Question: how do you find these submissions? Some of them are ANCIENT haha.


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-03 07:05:31


I'll plough through the rest of the reported audio tomorrow. I'm all cleanup'd out for now!

At 4/30/15 11:37 PM, EDM364 wrote: Sounds like a midi rip.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/97445

Those are premade loops. I've definitely heard those before. Removed.

Eminem.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/37419

Seems like a legitimate arrangement.

At 5/1/15 01:08 AM, 6359 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/592172
Description says it all.

Indeed!


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-03 10:54:58


At 5/2/15 03:57 AM, Exedor wrote: Metallica:

Removed

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-03 10:56:31


At 5/2/15 10:03 AM, H20studios wrote: Got one other lonely robber:
http://ataraxy.newgrounds.com/
He claims that he is allowed to do this because he nightcored the songs. However, as far as I know nightcoring is against the rules on this website.

Nightcoring is just speeding up a song. It definitely doesn't count as composing in any form. Removed, banned.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-03 11:04:08 (edited 2015-05-03 11:05:58)


At 5/2/15 10:45 AM, 6359 wrote: http://thisisthefatrat.newgrounds.com/
I'm suspicious. I don't see why Fatrat would suddenly get a NG account... Step pls halp meh.

What? Big artists suddenly discovering Newgrounds sounds too good to be true? Looks legit to me.

Oh and this:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/608820

Removed, banned.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-03 11:05:28


At 5/2/15 10:52 AM, SourJovis wrote: I was about to scout this artist, but as I did some research it turned out his only song is stolen from a game called Rayman Raving Rabbids
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/622568

Removed and banned.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-03 11:12:19


At 5/1/15 06:54 PM, EDM364 wrote: More copyrighted samples and rule breaking.

All gone.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-03 17:57:05


At 5/3/15 07:00 AM, Step wrote: Question: how do you find these submissions? Some of them are ANCIENT haha.

Nothing special really. Sometimes I google popular artists or suspicious keywords and tag "site:newgrounds.com" or quote "Newgrounds Audio Portal", and others I use the Audio search. Turns up something useful 9/10 times. Skrillex seems to be the most ripped off in the EDM genres, but I also look for popular songs, soundtracks, and artists, Magix Music Maker, terms like "not mine", dashes, "by", and other things audio thieves tend to say in descriptions and titles. It might result in me reporting a song or two others have found, but it works. I'm always happy to do my part.

Speaking of, here's some more backlog for you. I might as well start separating it by the artists ripped off, lol.

Skrillex Stuff

This one has copyrighted Skrillex samples.

This one samples his bass drop from Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites.

Not sure about this one. He has a soundcloud on his last news post, but the nonsense descrip and tags, as well as the overtly offensive profile have me guessing.

Uses a vocal sample that was on the Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites track "OH MY GOD!", but I'm not sure if that's a sample that's been around.

Sounds like this one chops up samples of another Skrillex song. Basically an illegal remix.

This one also samples the "oh my god"

And this one too. And it's just generally shitty spam.

Guy said he took it from someone's bandcamp album.

Rammstein Stuff

This guy is crediting someone else. And it sounds like a midi rip.

This one feels like Feuer Frei nightcored and put breaks to.

Samples the vocals.

Says in the summary.

Deliberately samples and chops Du Riechst So Gut. Even spelled it wrong. Also, some major abuse going on in the review response section.

Samples Feuer Frei deliberately. A bit of a pain to listen to.

Magix Music Maker

Misc

Not sure what this is sampling, but I doubt vocals belong to him

I think this one is all premade, badly mixed loops. This guy seems to make a lot of spam.


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-04 05:49:13 (edited 2015-05-04 05:49:29)


At 5/3/15 11:04 AM, BrokenDeck wrote: Big artists suddenly discovering Newgrounds sounds too good to be true?

Eeyup. I checked his facebook, and yes, it was legit.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-04 08:45:46 (edited 2015-05-04 08:47:09)


Mlg can can again

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-04 09:11:55


At 5/4/15 08:45 AM, 6359 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/600687
Mlg can can again

(I was 2slow2edit)

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-04 09:52:12


Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-04 10:14:10


http://teawow.newgrounds.com/audio

So now GD can use unscouted artists.
Bleh.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-04 10:31:09


At 5/4/15 10:14 AM, 6359 wrote: http://teawow.newgrounds.com/audio

So now GD can use unscouted artists.
Bleh.

Fuuuuuuuu, the timeer. I had s'more but they disappeared.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-04 11:46:29


At 5/3/15 05:57 PM, EDM364 wrote: here's some more backlog for you. I might as well start separating it by the artists ripped off, lol.

Removed all the stuff that was blatantly sampled or stolen.

For the time being, I'd concentrate more on outright stolen songs and gratuitous use of copyrighted samples rather than songs with obscure split-second samples that may or may not be copyrighted. ;)

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-04 11:47:14


At 5/4/15 10:14 AM, 6359 wrote: http://teawow.newgrounds.com/audio

So now GD can use unscouted artists.
Bleh.

@BrenTheMan @Step
Can anyone confirm this?

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-04 12:12:10


At 5/4/15 11:47 AM, BrokenDeck wrote:
At 5/4/15 10:14 AM, 6359 wrote: http://teawow.newgrounds.com/audio

So now GD can use unscouted artists.
Bleh.
@BrenTheMan @Step
Can anyone confirm this?

I'd have to install the app to test it, but after a quick look at the API he uses I would say no, this is not true.

Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-04 12:25:03


At 5/1/15 06:03 PM, H20studios wrote: Look who's coming back for some more service! ME!!!

Let's do this.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/610312
Spanish + Geometry Dash = Copier 90% of the time

90%? I'd say 100% is a better estimation. I have yet to find a submission with Spanish author's comments and mentions of Geometry Dash which isn't stolen haha.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/619399

That Flappy Bird theme seems to be a legitimate arrangement. It isn't the same as the original.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/613939
Not sure about.

His whole profile is full of Maple Story soundtrack. I wasn't able to trace that particular song back but I think the fact that 90% of his submissions are stolen justifies me unpublishing the entirety of his audio profile.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/593779

Sounds too crappy to be stolen. However, I found two stolen submissions on his profile so good job reporting him anyway!

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/597829

Seems like a legitimate Stereo Madness arrangement, made out of Windows XP sounds. Looks good to me.

I am not sure if this is a remix because of the long title
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/615267

Legitimate music producer.

At 5/4/15 12:12 PM, BrenTheMan wrote:
At 5/4/15 11:47 AM, BrokenDeck wrote:
At 5/4/15 10:14 AM, 6359 wrote: http://teawow.newgrounds.com/audio

So now GD can use unscouted artists.
Bleh.
@BrenTheMan @Step
Can anyone confirm this?
I'd have to install the app to test it, but after a quick look at the API he uses I would say no, this is not true.

I have the app myself. I'll check it out when I have time.


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Response to Audio Portal Cleanup 2015-05-04 15:58:12 (edited 2015-05-04 15:58:30)


At 5/4/15 11:46 AM, BrokenDeck wrote: Removed all the stuff that was blatantly sampled or stolen.

For the time being, I'd concentrate more on outright stolen songs and gratuitous use of copyrighted samples rather than songs with obscure split-second samples that may or may not be copyrighted. ;)

That's what I was going for, but it seems people are getting a little wiser to the fact that they can't steal songs outright without someone noticing. More common is the deliberate sampling.

Belongs to some youtube DJ

Says he uploaded it for his friend. I'm not sure if that counts as stolen.

Same story. Ancient.

Says it isn't his

"all credit goes to Chimy727"

Cut up.

Not his

Same.

Stolen from Megaman, I think, and run through a woodchipper. Left channel is pitched what sounds like an octave down.


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