Downstate wrote:what a cunt, lesson to be taken - never trust a guy that wants to use LSDJ for Kareoke. Had 'Hipster Douche' written all over it from the start.
lol
lol, yeah yeah yeah.
We should make the emails public. I only sent because he seemed trustworthy and he made it seem like he needed them right then. I'm not being so trustworthy anymore. #misanthropy
http://pastebin.com/ that shit.
]]>Downstate wrote:what a cunt, lesson to be taken - never trust a guy that wants to use LSDJ for Kareoke. Had 'Hipster Douche' written all over it from the start.
lol
We should make the emails public. I only sent because he seemed trustworthy and he made it seem like he needed them right then. I'm not being so trustworthy anymore. #misanthropy
]]>I wish there was a way that we could avoid these issues.
don't be stupid and send them stuff without payment first.
Bam
]]>This guy stole my time and effort, I wish there was a way that we could avoid these issues.
]]>Wait... the chip community doesn't like 8bit covers?
I love covers. 
The chip community doesn't like crappy 8bit covers.
Exactly. The beauty there is you get to draw contrast and put a focus on the quality of the original composition even in a fairly rudimentary rendering, as well and the expressive quality of well-done sequencing and programming.
If we wanted to be super snobs, we'd refer to really good "8-bit covers" as "Nintendo/C64/Whatever Arrangements;" successfully rendering a well-known song on such a radically different instrument requires a lot of work.
]]>The chip community doesn't like crappy 8bit covers.
Oh... that explains it...
*back to the drawing board*
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]]>Man I mean we can bitch about people ripping off our work all we want, but those Crystal Castles kids are still getting paid.
Ok I mean really I am taking this to an extreme here, but really I mean what we do is so marginal and incomprehensible to the average person that exploitation "artists" can pass off something mediocre as something groundbreaking just because it happened to be accessible enough and in the right venue for mass consumption – whether it be a "big name" with some uncleared samples and a claim to a magical MIDI box that makes C64 sounds, or a youtube account full of "clever" things like "8-bit covers."
At the end of the day though, I think being open and communicative about the kinds of fraud we see occurring at the fringes of this admittedly esoteric scene is the best way to negate future offenses. When people understand what we do, they won't be as readily accepting of plagiarism.
I think you're thinking too far into this, dude.
Moral of the story: people can steal music, don't be stupid and send them stuff without payment first.
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