Tora Kouhi:
If anyone is lucky enough to get a soundtrack to SvC: Chaos, send the tracks in mp3 format to ripscity@hotmail.com if they are small enough. If not small enough PM me with a contact link (ICQ, AIM, MSN, YIM) and we can transfer file from there. They'll be uploaded and you'll get credit.
The game hasn't even made its official debut yet, but you're already asking folks to steal the soundtrack for you? What the hell for? Go buy the thing yourself when it's released on CD -- SNK's soundtracks are usually released shortly after the game's launch (and at a retail price lower than the average JPOP/JROCK CD), so why don't you just pony up the cash and support the composers?
Not a very common sense request, either, given the venue you chose in which to make it. With the attention counterfeiters and bootleggers are getting from SNK Playmore these days (and with the attention we know SNK Playmore gives neo-geo.com), asking for a stolen copy of their latest game's soundtrack, hosting it on a public website, and naming the person who gave you the files is about as smart as opening up a meth lab (with an 8x10 of your supplier taped to the front door) across the street from a police station.
Tora Kouhi:
so you saying having any sort of OST of any game such as Guilty Gear X is the result of bootleging? Bullshit!
I assume that what you meant to say here was "so you saying having any sort of .mp3 files of the OST of any game such as Guilty Gear X is the result of bootleging?" -- the answer is YES, unless you already own the original CD release of that OST. Fair Use entitles you to make a backup copy for archival purposes of any CD you own. However, you are forbidden from giving, lending, leasing, renting, or selling a backup copy to anyone else -- it is for your use only. So if you have .mp3 files on your computer for which you have no original CD release, then yes, those files are the result of a copyright violation (or bootlegging, as you put it).
Tora Kouhi:
Sheesh! all I wanted to do beat a certain (censored for the UK people) cocksucker to the punch
Well, this answers my "what the hell for?" question, above -- it's a dick-waving contest, pure and simple. How pathetic -- "I illegally distributed pirated music files from 'Game X' before anyone else!" Big deal -- you're both thieves.
BTW, what word in your phrase "a certain (censored for the UK people) cocksucker" did you leave out for the sake of not offending the British members? I lived in England for 4 years, and I seem to recall "cocksucker" being just as offensive there as here in the 'States. Just wondering how offensive your omitted word must have been for you to have considered "cocksucker" mild enough to warrant inclusion.
the roker:
I'd hate to side with this guy and all, but millions upon millions of people download music off of Kazaa, so what would be so different?
Nothing -- that's stealing, too. Just because a mob of 50 people perform a smash'n'grab on a clothing store doesn't make the actions of each one of them just as illegal as those of a solo shoplifter. If two wrongs don't make a right, "millions upon millions" of wrongs certainly don't, either.
the roker:
I mean you can easily buy those CDs in stores too!
And you can buy original imported video game OST CDs just as easily.
the roker:
You mean to tell me none of you download music off the internet? Bullshit! Hippocrates I say!
I don't believe anyone who posted in this thread before you ever made that claim -- stop making unfounded accusations and assumptions.
the roker:
I think his method is retarded, but you have to be kidding yourself when you say he's wrong for wanting the mp3's of it. Napster has changed that forever
Attempting to acquire an illegal copy of a copyrighted work is exactly that: illegal. The only way one could consider such an action to be anything other than "wrong" is if one felt that violating laws was not "wrong." If there were nothing "wrong" with it, Napster would still be operating in exactly the same manner they did before they were brought to court.
--Chris
