09-17-2015, 01:08 AM
(09-17-2015, 12:50 AM)Tellis Wrote: I'd agree but it's... a bit more complicated than that? I understand not wanting to rub elbows too hard with copyright in regards to music but the other thing to think about is that, if we're doing this with any sort of regards to archival purposes, tiny ditties and fanfares aren't often included in official soundtracks (especially unused stuff) or even some gamerips, so Sounds Resource might actually end up being the only place TO find some of these things. It is a bit of a grey area, for sure, trying to determine what is and isn't a sound effect, especially in regards to that Melee upload. Most of it's easily found on Melee soundtrack rips so I'd say my point is moot here but not necessarily for every case...
Yep, this makes sense to me.
Another thing that bothers me is some games use public domain music, or the devs/artists allow the free download of the songs as-is. (In that case, a rip is pretty pointless, anyways, but as aforementioned, archival purposes) But yeah, site policy strictly says "NO!" oh well...
Anyways, that's my $0.02 on that subject.
And hmm, the tags in auto-generated PM's should be quite useful!
Neat!