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The Place Of Modern MIDI Music?
-1-Lone_Eagle writes "With the free availability of literally thousands of MIDI files on the Internet, and increasingly powerful home desktop systems and software, virtually anyone can take a MIDI file and using a program such as GarageBand or Reason create a near-studio-quality rendition of their favorite song. This opens up an interesting discussion, is a remixed MIDI file an original creation? Or is it simply a copied work with the rights belonging to the original author? Is it piracy? What do you think?"
"What do the you think?"
Apparently, you don't think.
Shittest. Article. Ever.
This topic is just a stealth advertisement for the poster's crappy own "musichax" website. I'm not particularly opposed to someone trying to drum up some enthusiasm for their own project, whether it be a program or an interesting site, but for cripes' sake, show some honesty and integrity while doing so. Instead of just saying, "This opens up an interesting discussion" and trying to secretly lure us with one of your links, be up front about it and say, "I'm starting a new website with remixed midi tunes. What do you think of the legality or ethics of this?" Or put a disclaimer in, such as [NOTE: I am the webmaster of the site in question].
But as things stand, you're an ass for trying to slip one in on us, and Zonk should be beaten with a wet ethernet cable for not doing the slightest bit of investigation regarding the links you submitted.
I have some thoughts about your site but I won't elaborate since I don't think you should be rewarded for your sneaky behavior.
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