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?"

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Re:TNB

[TomHandy]

Learn the truth about MLK from a website hosted by the Stormfront White Nationalist Community? Alright! I'm sure they are definitely the go-to guys to learn about MLK.

Who steals what?

[Lord Kano]

Ask a Native American who the biggest thieves are.

LK

Tempest setting up site for the song

[grimJester]

Replying to an unrelated post to get this higher up.

Here's the site. Nothing but placeholder text for now. The page says "Later tonight (Sunday, 14th January 2007) (well, before Monday morning anyway)" and Finland is at GMT+2.