At 6/4/21 01:39 PM, Nikostormkilla wrote:

At 6/3/21 10:34 PM, Anonymous-Frog wrote:https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1040146
User is likely trying to impersonate the real CG5, especially when they try to claim that 'it's a secret', and 'Please don't tell my YT'
Intends to put the music on Geometry Dash, as those are the only tags on there.

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXJGTnVfJic

while the thing was removed when I checked, "I see a dreamer" isn't even a dubstep or brostep song.

At 6/5/21 05:09 PM, pmcgregor wrote:Pineappa-Da-Rapa (newgrounds.com)
this account is ban evading, he broke the No Unlicensed Samples and No Slowed Down Audio rule, he also is reuploading songs from IbalessiGirl who was also banned for breaking the No Unlicensed Samples rule. Edit: so just found out this isn't TDC however its a friend of theirs and he is reuploading TDC and IbalessiGirl's music which is still ban evasion.

At 6/5/21 05:13 PM, pmcgregor wrote:

At 6/5/21 05:09 PM, pmcgregor wrote:Pineappa-Da-Rapa (newgrounds.com)
this account is ban evading, he broke the No Unlicensed Samples and No Slowed Down Audio rule, he also is reuploading songs from IbalessiGirl who was also banned for breaking the No Unlicensed Samples rule. Edit: so just found out this isn't TDC however its a friend of theirs and he is reuploading TDC and IbalessiGirl's music which is still ban evasion.

Yeah I flagged TDC for uploading other peoples songs but Slowed Down and Reverse. IballesiGirl was banned for 5 years for using Unlicensed Samples.

At 6/5/21 09:34 PM, Nikostormkilla wrote:

At 6/5/21 04:47 AM, Anonymous-Frog wrote:

At 6/4/21 01:39 PM, Nikostormkilla wrote:

At 6/3/21 10:34 PM, Anonymous-Frog wrote:https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1040146
User is likely trying to impersonate the real CG5, especially when they try to claim that 'it's a secret', and 'Please don't tell my YT'
Intends to put the music on Geometry Dash, as those are the only tags on there.

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXJGTnVfJic

while the thing was removed when I checked, "I see a dreamer" isn't even a dubstep or brostep song.

Response to getting the song removed.

I remember the faker said on his first news post that he was a fan account and not the real one but I checked again now and it seems he removed it

At 6/8/21 08:29 AM, DESKPOP wrote:Hi there, we have been improperly banned from the Audio Portal. Got a message last night saying that I cannot publish other people’s audio, yet we own all of the audio that we’ve been publishing.

DESKPOP (us) is a record label, and we’ve been publishing our content here so that Newgrounds users have more audio to use for games, animation, and simply recreational listening.

We’ve already been front-paged twice with our music, so I’m not sure where this ban is coming from since we’ve been publishing the same type of content since joining the site. Again, we legally own all the audio we’ve been publishing, and all musicians published agree beforehand to have their music hosted here (not all of them want to make an account and publish themselves).

There is nothing in the stated audio rules that would prevent us from doing this, or else we wouldn’t have joined the site in the first place, and we were met with a huge & positive response when we publicly announced joining Newgrounds.

At 6/8/21 12:15 PM, Seth wrote:

At 6/8/21 08:29 AM, DESKPOP wrote:Hi there, we have been improperly banned from the Audio Portal. Got a message last night saying that I cannot publish other people’s audio, yet we own all of the audio that we’ve been publishing.

DESKPOP (us) is a record label, and we’ve been publishing our content here so that Newgrounds users have more audio to use for games, animation, and simply recreational listening.

We’ve already been front-paged twice with our music, so I’m not sure where this ban is coming from since we’ve been publishing the same type of content since joining the site. Again, we legally own all the audio we’ve been publishing, and all musicians published agree beforehand to have their music hosted here (not all of them want to make an account and publish themselves).

There is nothing in the stated audio rules that would prevent us from doing this, or else we wouldn’t have joined the site in the first place, and we were met with a huge & positive response when we publicly announced joining Newgrounds.

The thing is, if you're a record label, you are representing other artists. Simply put, the Audio Portal rules state that you cannot upload music you did not make.

"Do not upload audio that you did not create and have full rights to."

I'm sorry, but that's how it is. Audio moderators are simply enforcing the guidelines, which can be viewed here: https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/terms-of-use/audio-guidelines

At 6/8/21 08:47 PM, Seth wrote:

At 6/8/21 08:30 PM, DESKPOP wrote:

At 6/8/21 12:15 PM, Seth wrote:

At 6/8/21 08:29 AM, DESKPOP wrote:Hi there, we have been improperly banned from the Audio Portal. Got a message last night saying that I cannot publish other people’s audio, yet we own all of the audio that we’ve been publishing.

DESKPOP (us) is a record label, and we’ve been publishing our content here so that Newgrounds users have more audio to use for games, animation, and simply recreational listening.

We’ve already been front-paged twice with our music, so I’m not sure where this ban is coming from since we’ve been publishing the same type of content since joining the site. Again, we legally own all the audio we’ve been publishing, and all musicians published agree beforehand to have their music hosted here (not all of them want to make an account and publish themselves).

There is nothing in the stated audio rules that would prevent us from doing this, or else we wouldn’t have joined the site in the first place, and we were met with a huge & positive response when we publicly announced joining Newgrounds.

The thing is, if you're a record label, you are representing other artists. Simply put, the Audio Portal rules state that you cannot upload music you did not make.

"Do not upload audio that you did not create and have full rights to."

I'm sorry, but that's how it is. Audio moderators are simply enforcing the guidelines, which can be viewed here: https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/terms-of-use/audio-guidelines

You are missing the “we” part! This account is run by the musicians who have created that music. DESKPOP is made of multiple people. Does it state anywhere on this website that an account CANNOT be run by multiple people? This is “our” music that WE made. Audio descriptions for each track then state which member of DESKPOP created that track, and are written in third person as to narrate each one of our stories.

Now this falls into a gray area, and I've never seen this situation before. I'm going to remain neutral on this and let audio moderators respond as they feel is appropriate.

Word. That’s fair, as it doesn’t seem there are many other accounts ran by collectives of people. I really hope we can work something out because we’re all indie musicians who want to connect with this awesome user base and provide our audio unmonetized for devs/animators to use without having to email and wait for a response. This community is really cool, plus we really enjoy the tools that Newgrounds had for audio posting (more robust than SoundCloud in some ways). Thanks for discussing this!

At 6/8/21 08:29 AM, DESKPOP wrote:Hi there, we have been improperly banned from the Audio Portal. Got a message last night saying that I cannot publish other people’s audio, yet we own all of the audio that we’ve been publishing.

DESKPOP (us) is a record label, and we’ve been publishing our content here so that Newgrounds users have more audio to use for games, animation, and simply recreational listening.

We’ve already been front-paged twice with our music, so I’m not sure where this ban is coming from since we’ve been publishing the same type of content since joining the site. Again, we legally own all the audio we’ve been publishing, and all musicians published agree beforehand to have their music hosted here (not all of them want to make an account and publish themselves).

There is nothing in the stated audio rules that would prevent us from doing this, or else we wouldn’t have joined the site in the first place, and we were met with a huge & positive response when we publicly announced joining Newgrounds.

At 6/8/21 08:53 PM, DESKPOP wrote:Word. That’s fair, as it doesn’t seem there are many other accounts ran by collectives of people. I really hope we can work something out because we’re all indie musicians who want to connect with this awesome user base and provide our audio unmonetized for devs/animators to use without having to email and wait for a response. This community is really cool, plus we really enjoy the tools that Newgrounds had for audio posting (more robust than SoundCloud in some ways). Thanks for discussing this!

At 6/12/21 08:41 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 6/8/21 08:53 PM, DESKPOP wrote:Word. That’s fair, as it doesn’t seem there are many other accounts ran by collectives of people. I really hope we can work something out because we’re all indie musicians who want to connect with this awesome user base and provide our audio unmonetized for devs/animators to use without having to email and wait for a response. This community is really cool, plus we really enjoy the tools that Newgrounds had for audio posting (more robust than SoundCloud in some ways). Thanks for discussing this!

I've removed the ban and given the moderator the heads up. In general people are wary of record labels posting music here because everything is very individual artist-centric, however it's nice to have your great music here as a resource as well! If any of the individual artists are down to have accounts, they can be co-authored on their songs, which you've already done with these two:

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1026991
https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1032604

That's the sort of ideal scenario whenever possible.