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Did Producer Timbaland Steal From the Demoscene?
gloom writes "In 2000 the Finnish demoscene musician Janne Suni (also known as 'Tempest') won the Oldskool Music Competition at the Assembly demoparty with his four-channel Amiga .MOD entitled 'Acid Jazzed Evening.' A Commodore 64 musician called 'grg' remade the song on the C64 (using the infamous SID soundchip); it is this that was stolen. The producer's name is Timbaland and he is one of the hottest names in American music these days. The track in question is called 'Do it' and it is featured on the Nelly Furtado album 'Loose' on the Geffen label. Getting nowhere with Geffen, the demoscene has now risen to the aid of Tempest, first by creating a stir at SomethingAwful (files downloadable from the forum), then at Digg.com, then on YouTube, with a video demonstrating the blatant ripoff. Being an online-posting musician myself — what rights do I have if this should ever happen to me, and what can be done to raise awareness about such things?"
You start by cutting a cheque to the estates of a thousand dead musicians who influenced you, hundreds of instrument designers who developed the tools, and society for giving you enough free time to create music.
If it costs nothing to copy, why shouldn't it be free?
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If you mod this down you have no sense of humor.
You have no rights over your content once its been released.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
TYPICAL NEGRO BEHAVIOR
Looting, stealing, raping.. the typical behavior of Blacks in America. Oh wait Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day!
Pop pop gunshot. Muh dick! These "musicians" or so-called rappers often take parts of a song and move the words around to call it their own. I wonder where they get that from?
Look at Koonye West aka Kanye West. He "borrowed" err stole, the idea for his "Touch The Sky" video from Evil Kanevil's infamous Canyon jump. When the video didn't win Video of the Year, West chimped out shouting "It costed a million dollars, had Pamela Anderson in it, and had me jumping over a canyon". This coming from the same guy who said George Bush doesn't care about Black people. Of course GWB doesn't care about black people. If he did, he would give every one in the USA at birth an infinate supply of bulletproof vests, bulletproof helmets (lol Fitty Scents getting shot in the face) and groin protection (2pac got shot in his nuts, lol).
Martin Luther King, Jr (often called Martin Looter Koon, Jr) was a plagarist, a communist and a womanizer. King plagarized much of his "I Have A Dream" speech.
Someone give Timbaland a huge slice of watermelon and a bucket of KFC chicken for a job well done! He's sitting back, smoking crack, and laughing his ass off about his major "accomplishment".
The truth of MLK can be found at www.martinlutherking.org
I just saw the video on Youtube. Anyone who has taken an Intro to DSP course knows that their comparison is absolutely worthless -- rather than show me an amplitude plot, show me a spectrum... then visually a more accurate comparison might be made. This is basic fact.
Since the source of this is the SomethingAwful, I'm guessing that this is a poor attempt at a troll or the general case of pluralistic ignorance communal reinforcement that runs rampant in that community. Nothing worthwhile to see here folks, move along.
You can start by keeping your mouth shut. ( well, fingers off the keyboard, but im sure you are smart enough to understand what i meant ).
And before you go off and start flapping your gums anyway, i dont believe in copyright, patents or the concept of IP in general. As far as I'm concerned, once a 'object' is released into the world for consumption, you lose all rights to it and it belongs to 'the people'.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
True. Niggermusic is stupid and unoriginal. There is nothing new or original about any of it. Niggers just steal stuff that they think no one will know about.