Pretty Much...

I'd stress though, I could well be wrong about that. Can't seem to find any info about it anywhere now.

heh, I remember Brian Green. We used to be in the same circles of South Carolinas electronic stuff, which pretty much scattered-for me- after a music space here closed down. last I heard he was doing ambient Ableton processed stuff. I think he jacked some art from Talk To Animals circa 1800-zombie or something.  There was a guy on 8bc under the name Jim Kelly Dolemite who used to do choppy-sample based stuff from GB, Snes Games, etc that was pretty cool.

very stoked to hear that bionic commando tune was a commissioned remix though.. it is very very good

ruh roh we've got a serious dubstep hipster on our hands here guys

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Don't forget Disney! They stole an Anamanghicuhihcihioghicuiihgiuchi song.

I thought this was kinda funny. cuz:

Hello Mr. Pot.

If I recall correctly, the Rusko remix of Bionic Commando was credited as that, a remix. And was commissioned as a promotional thing for the re-release or one of the sequels to the game. Or possibly just presented that way... not entirely sure who'd have rights to it.

So, possibly not entirely criminal?

Side note: why do people whine about dubstep so much on here? (which Rusko basically stopped making around 2007.)

Alsonotdubstep, sigh.

Fo sho.

Yeah, I mean basically anything that's copyrighted. Sampling songs is trickier.

Okay, for example breakbeats. That's a song that you don't own at all. But it's like a nod to another artist... You're not pretending that you made it. I don't know, I guess even that is a little sketchy, because those drummers who made those breaks do deserve money.

I've never done that. Dialogue clips sure but I've never been interested in sampling a popular song.

We've all done that. You can be upfront about it, or you can obfuscate it, and pretend like it's yours. What Timbaland did was totally brazen, whole track theft. But it would have been fine if he had tipped his hat to GRG, and the other dude. In my mind anyway.

I sampled a song before put me on the list

Talking of dubstep... add Datsik to the list. The "game over" sample in his track by the same name was taken from my freesound account without giving credit. Not that I really care though.

it was pretty much a new one every time he got caught