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see, you are clearly way too entitled for your own good, and beyond the wishes of the artists.

if people are getting upset, thats unfortunate. but its hard to not be at least disappointed due to how easy it is to connect with people nowadays. it looks like you guys are getting wound up over the legal aspects of it when its more of  matter of being courteous. this guy was a dick about it but still removed the songs and im sure he will for anyone who approaches him, so its whatever.

when i started releasing and distributing music, it was a matter of having to write people who ran labels letters, corresponding a bit, getting someone's phone number to open up an easier dialog with them to find out how to get a hold of people in bands. thats just how it went, and it was like this for many people and certainly still is for people who dont have internet access in other countries. there was incentive to help labels with distribution and things were of course much more simple, because you had to wait and see. there was no youtube or internet beyond lynx and gopher and newsgroups and i guess webcrawler if you were really lucky and you relied on getting in touch with people the old fashioned way, through the phone or mail, it took time. theres no excuse to not take the steps nowadays when they are as easy to do as they are.

if anybody would go through the effort put into that channel in a scene this small and not contact the artists, then its more of a matter of making that guy's intentions known to this community so that theres no transparency, im not saying that its sneaky or something. but either way it isnt exactly working with people when it could benefit everybody and i wanted to put this guy on blast after his less than courteous messages so people can see that he isnt concerned with the artist, he's concerned with the success of his youtube channel. the 'wait and see' ethic that i experienced back in my earlier years is put into effect here in reverse because its a matter of whether or not someone protests in this streaming-driven environment that artists have no choice but to coexist in on the internet.

as far as me releasing remixes is concerned, i contact people and let em know my intent, thats the first thing i do because i dont want to piss anybody off. sorry, i didnt get in touch with rdj. im pretty sure he will be ok with it consider he never wanted to cop to analord to begin with. ive done video game remixes for more than ten years now and if i could contact those guys, i would. several of these composers have contacted me and encouraged me to continue at it, ive even worked with some of them as a result of that correspondence too. the big difference is that i have established myself by being forthcoming and enjoyed getting in touch with people over the years and done a smattering of work, much less remixes. either way, remixes are very different from taking someone's audio, putting a static image into vegas and uploading it and calling it good.

the main issue i have with this guy is not reaching out to any of the artists. any of the guys that i approached have said that there was no contact from this guy, one of them said at first they were not giving permission and it sounded like the guy pretty much convinced him or plowed him over by holding him dead to rights on the cc crap. and none of them have said they asked him to upload their tunes. he wrote me back with this:

his comments are very arrogant because i definitely didnt release that stuff under cc. and its funny that he says i am upset, because i was very straightforward with this guy, certainly not upset. if anything, its pretty frustrating that i tried to make it very clear to him that he owes it to the artist to contact them and not to be assumptive and entitled, but he's not trying to hear it at all. no apologies from him, he's dead set in his opinion that its fine to do whatever he wants and he doesnt need to read the fine print or contact the artist and that it has nothing to do with creative commons or licensing or anything along those lines. thats a catch all excuse he is using which isnt exactly upsetting, but frustrating that he is willing to be so ignorant and unapologetic and while it doesnt affect me in the slightest, others in the future might not be so quick to give him the benefit of the doubt the way he himself should when it comes to what he is doing.

yes lil baconator

i personally did not.

seems pretty lazy to just assume people are ok with it instead of at least trying to make a connection with the artist and use some social skills, maybe make a new friend. this scene is small and people are easily approachable when it comes to this kind of thing, so why do people sometimes find it so hard to show support in a way that doesnt shortchange someone else work? even going out of their way to make more work for themselves in this case? seems pretty lazy if you ask me. maybe he feels like if he asked the artists they would say no. either way, somethings messed up here.

i honestly didnt have that big of a problem with it, but the thing that turned me off is seeing full releases beyond of course being assumptive of the artists wishes in uploading someone's entire album in a scene where you can easily contact people. if the guy would have contacted me, i certainly wouldnt have shot him down. the response was as you can see deflecting any responsibility and telling me im wrong and that no harm is actually done isnt really up to him to say. i am going to have to go see my doctor now due to the psychological damage this situation has caused me.