At 1/10/17 07:23 PM, BlueAlpha14 wrote: Have you added JK-FlipFlop's (or cank, currently) method of scouting? I've used it a couple times, and it's worked to where I can trust scouting someone.

@NekoMika and I are reviewing that right now to make sure it's just right before listing it. I'm checking your mail out now. The power went out earlier -- two transformers exploded, and a line was down in my yard. Trees fell on the line. Meth heads blew up the other two, I think.

At 1/10/17 10:34 PM, EDM364 wrote:
@NekoMika and I are reviewing that right now to make sure it's just right before listing it.

I was talking about his previous one, not the one he just posted.

-- two transformers exploded,

wait wat

Meth heads blew up the other two, I think.

Drug dealers smh

At 1/10/17 10:04 PM, MonsterboyGD wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/721915
Chaoz fantasy, stealing songs that were made 10 years ago, i mean come on

Bear in mind not everyone knew of that song from Newgrounds. If people actually knew what songs were on Newgrounds we wouldn't have so many Waterflame and TheFatRat uploads (excluding the ones people upload from those artists if they never posted it to NG).

At 1/11/17 11:20 AM, cank wrote: @BlueAlpha14 @Phronemophobia name that tune?

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHh 8-bit adventures sounds super familiar but I don't know from where. I hate when that happens .-.

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^No idea who this artist is, but they did steal another song that I know of so I can't help but think this is stolen as well.

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^TheLivingTombstone, you'll later see this person posted that song again.

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^You can hear the original song in the background, but even still these how to's are fricking annoying.

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^DEAF KEV

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^Used to listen to this song a lot, until I grew out of complextro.

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^Anyone can debate this if they want to, but I'm too lazy to listen to all of Monstercat's Trap releases to confirm if this is stolen. It sounds stolen, but I'll leave the final decision up to the mods.

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^Self-explanatory

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^Going to have to get this on my playlist from the ACTUAL artist, pretty dope song.

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^Ayyyyy I told you so.

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^Alan Walker

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^Evolution of Music. Used to be my favorite when I first got into EDM.

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^This guy's username is proof enough this was stolen

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^You know, I used to actually like this song...

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^Ayy what do you know, Monster Dance Off. Of course.

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At 9/24/14 07:56 AM, B16 wrote: In this thread, report any Audio Portal submissions which break the rules detailed in the Audio Portal Guidelines.

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At 1/11/17 08:31 PM, ElectroSparx wrote:

At 9/24/14 07:56 AM, B16 wrote: In this thread, report any Audio Portal submissions which break the rules detailed in the Audio Portal Guidelines.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/715372

This appears to be spam but not ear-breaking. Their other submissions are the same. @Exedor, your opinion?

At 1/11/17 09:37 PM, EDM364 wrote:

At 1/11/17 08:31 PM, ElectroSparx wrote:

At 9/24/14 07:56 AM, B16 wrote: In this thread, report any Audio Portal submissions which break the rules detailed in the Audio Portal Guidelines.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/715372

This appears to be spam but not ear-breaking. Their other submissions are the same. @Exedor, your opinion?

I know in the end it's a moderators opinion that counts, but Lexa did disregard a few "vocal" submissions that I posted here, even if they were spam or didn't make any sense.

EDIT: While it is an unnecessary audio, I'm just going by the reports that have been disregarded by them.

At 1/11/17 11:04 PM, MonsterboyGD wrote: Okay why is this deleted in the first place? I remember listening to this and all the instruments were his work. Why delete this one? Its legimate and read the short description

This one sounds like a midi rip, but it's a cover of a copyrighted song. We can't really have those here anymore, which is pretty depressing.

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^I can confirm this is stolen. I actually have a few of Cruel Reaction's songs in my library.

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^Razihel and VR

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At 1/11/17 11:11 PM, EDM364 wrote:

At 1/11/17 11:04 PM, MonsterboyGD wrote: Okay why is this deleted in the first place? I remember listening to this and all the instruments were his work. Why delete this one? Its legimate and read the short description

This one sounds like a midi rip, but it's a cover of a copyrighted song. We can't really have those here anymore, which is pretty depressing.

@MonsterboyGD (haven't figured out how to respond to two forum posts in one yet) I'm sure the mods also appreciate you finding legitimate stuff to be recovered. Doing community work also means protecting it. Hence why I dispute some stuff that's been posted here.

@EDM364 Isn't there some kind of protection against that? Like, an ex post facto law where you can't be punished if you did the act at a time where it wasn't against the rules? There's so many good remixes on here ;^;

So wait.. if Skrillex is owned by a label, would that mean all these are against the rules? I probably took a huge risk flagging all of them but..

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^This actually isn't a remix though, it's just that GD remix 2 or whatever lol

At 1/12/17 12:40 AM, BlueAlpha14 wrote: @EDM364 Isn't there some kind of protection against that? Like, an ex post facto law where you can't be punished if you did the act at a time where it wasn't against the rules? There's so many good remixes on here ;^;

This I don't know. I do know that submissions containing copyrighted content are now having to be taken down due to copyright law and that @TomFulp has lamented on covers and remixes for ages. In fact, not being able to do remixes and remakes specifically of copyrighted works has kept me from submitting a lot of pieces I've made as a learning exercise.

I'm not sure whether we should hunt down old covers and remixes much the same way we do abusive content such as thefts and ear-rape or not. Some of these submissions have been downloaded over 30k times, etc. and enjoyed by no small shortage of people, but we are dearly trying to avoid copyright fuss. I'll have to get an wiser opinion than my own for sure. I did however remove one of those submissions that had a copyrighted sample in it. We're not allowed to have even a "millesecond" of copyrighted content in our submissions without explicit and legal permission.

At 1/12/17 10:35 AM, NekoMika wrote: For uber old or even new remixes and covers, we can leave them be unless it's using more than 10% of the original source for the remixing and such. :P If they have the documentation to show they do have permission, then leave the song be.

I probably just screwed up flagging all those Skrillex remixes, huh?

At 1/12/17 10:52 AM, NekoMika wrote:
Nah, I have to check each remix flagged anyways, you did not do anything wrong. For giant label artists, we may have to remove those actually. :x

I actually downloaded some of them, in case they really have to get removed. But I'll keep in mind what you said about the remix thing, so maybe I'll know which remixes can stay and which ones can't.

@cank @BlueAlpha14

I went and had a small chat with Tom about the issue and from what I understand, basically, if you have a question about a remix, bring it up here; like @NekoMika said, if it's using more than 10% of the source material, it probably has to go. Additionally, any big name radio artists like Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez also need to go -- you can always check something like the big bad list of copyright bullies (Taylor Swift sued a couple for using her song at a wedding without paying royalties). If they don't have any of the source material at all, that's a bigger question. So I would say, no witch hunt based off of his responses, excepting the big name labels' songs. Age and popularity doesn't appear to have a factor, much like our old classics which have died as a result of copyright, and that's sad, but we really are better off not giving these labels any representation on our site. The more they have, the more power they have to do evil.

In short, anything with copyrighted acapellas and samples has to go. Big name artists like Taylor Swift, Selena, or any other artist whose label hunts down copyright, stuff owned by the big 3, has to go. Videogame remixes can stay, as long as they aren't a talentless midi rip or something like a "how to" with the audio playing in the background.

At 1/12/17 06:09 PM, EDM364 wrote: Remixing rules

Alright, I understand. I'll keep that in mind when listening to remixes. I deeply apologize for posting the Skrillex remixes that were legit enough to stay.

At 1/12/17 11:03 AM, NekoMika wrote:
Nothing wrong with that, some of the remixes can be wonderful.

Some remixes really are great.

Seems only 3 of the songs had to be removed. :)

Ah, hope that doesn't affect my accuracy. I think to be on the safe side I'll just divert from remixes.

At 1/12/17 06:09 PM, EDM364 wrote: Taylor Swift sued a couple for using her song at a wedding without paying royalties

That's insane. And this is the same person who made headlines a year or two ago blasting Spotify's unfair terms, implying she cared about smaller artists getting by and wanted to stand up for the underdog. Guess I may have been right in thinking she was just acting as a pawn for her record label and trying to squeeze as much income out of streaming on their behalf.

I also had no idea Selena Gomez made music, huh.

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At 1/12/17 07:48 PM, Jackho wrote:
I also had no idea Selena Gomez made music, huh.

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At 1/12/17 10:48 PM, BlueAlpha14 wrote:

At 1/12/17 07:48 PM, Jackho wrote:
I also had no idea Selena Gomez made music, huh.

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If that's confusing, my only knowledge of Gomez is as an actress in Spring Breakers.

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^ this isn't playing for me probably because it's so large, but going by the run time this dude literally uploaded the entire Pink Floyd album The Wall.

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Source:

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^Mashup, which sounds like the original songs slowed down.

It's the weekend, yeah, so I'm probably going to be active on here.

At 1/13/17 07:14 PM, NekoMika wrote: And all of those are removed.

I got the first two before I even checked here, ironically. Last one I wasn't sure about. Thanks for the hand, guys. I've started a tally of stuff I handle personally, just to keep up with the theft rate. The unscouted has been a holy terror the past couple of days. Right now, I've got 17 stolen songs and 1 from disallowed DAWs such as MAGIX and Music Maker Jam, across 13 submitters, and that's in a 1 hr period of browsing.

At 1/13/17 07:14 PM, NekoMika wrote: And all of those are removed.

Yay

At 1/13/17 07:27 PM, EDM364 wrote:

At 1/13/17 07:14 PM, NekoMika wrote: And all of those are removed.

I got the first two before I even checked here, ironically. Last one I wasn't sure about. Thanks for the hand, guys. I've started a tally of stuff I handle personally, just to keep up with the theft rate. The unscouted has been a holy terror the past couple of days. Right now, I've got 17 stolen songs and 1 from disallowed DAWs such as MAGIX and Music Maker Jam, across 13 submitters, and that's in a 1 hr period of browsing.

Ah crap music maker jam is not allowed either? I could've had like 30 extra submissions on here if I would've known that. Ah well, stolen music is more of my professional field anyways..

So I just did a search result on "Music Maker Jam" and "Magix Music Maker" both are not allowed. If any moderator disregards these submissions please tell me why so I can closely look next time instead of bindly reporting stuff that was made in Music Maker Jam.

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^Music Maker Jam

Alright, back to stolen stuff

At 1/13/17 07:45 PM, MonsterboyGD wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/592821
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/596589
Is it okay to have 2 same songs in here? If not remove one of them

The second one says "update" so....

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^An NCS song, you'll see the authors later down because this person had to upload the song 5 times with different names

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^Same as above

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^Ah here we go, here's the authors

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^VR - Energy Drink

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^Teminite - Energize, and at a crappy quality might I mention

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^Music Maker Jam

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^Theory Of Skrillex or GD Remix 2 or whatever the hell it is. It's Skrillex

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^Different Heaven

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^MUST DIE!

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^Now I KNOW I've heard this song from somewhere. I'm way too familiar with it. If anybody could tell me what song it is that'd be great.

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Source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVyhtrY92ew

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^Destroid - Raise Your Fist (ft. Space Laces)

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^Will & Tim

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At 1/13/17 08:39 PM, BlueAlpha14 wrote: Ah crap music maker jam is not allowed either? I could've had like 30 extra submissions on here if I would've known that. Ah well, stolen music is more of my professional field anyways..

Yes, Magix and MMJ are disallowed, as are songs that are only composed of loops. If you look up some of the stuff on YT made with Magix and MMJ it will become common sense -- and do give a listen to these. The samples are often easy to identify later. Due to the rights in these programs, they aren't permissible here. Keep the reports coming as always though. Between you, other users, and the mod team, we're fleecing the place pretty well and wiping the illegitimate crap off the map at a furious pace.