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Video Game Music Mixes
Matt Pollard writes: "A group of video game music fanatics and musicians have opened up a new website at VGMix.com. If you're like us, sometimes you can't get the snazzy tunes of today's video games out of your head. Also, if you're up for a bit of nostalgia, this is certainly the place to go to relive the days of youth when you hummed the Super Mario Bros. theme under your breath during class grade school."
I wish I could get Slashdot to launch all of my web sites.
Thank you very much but I did read the site, and you are wrong. On the top right of each post is a "download" link to let you download the video game music in mp3 format and two thirds of the articles contain links within them to download these mp3s. I am not sure if this website is the actual server on which this music is held, but then it would still be nothing different than some video game music warez link site. Things like this on Slashdot give it a bad name. Open source is great, but posting things like this, when the music is not even free as in beer, gives fuel to arguments like when Microsoft says "open source is bad for licenses," even if arguments like that are flawed. It gives negative press and it is just plain illegal to download and listen to the music unless you own the video game, and I am sure most people own no more than a few percent of the total songs (and I really doubt that they would scroll through and say, "hey! I don't own that. I won't download it.")
I might be wrong, but the impression I received was that it was variations from the original work. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if it wasn't based on the video game music it would be original music and in no way connected to the video games. Even if the music is not 100% of a replica of the original work, it still goes against the license. It's like taking 50% of the source code from Windows (although why anyone would want to use it is beyond me) and mixing it with 50% of Solaris.