1 Reply by 8BitStellar

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nordloef wrote:

Well it's still on Spotify....

I never made an account with any music outsourcer other than Reverbnation. Its Tunecore Distribution and how that came up on Spotify, Grooveshark, Amazon, Napster, and a few other notorious music sites.

SJSFC wrote:

well that was a nice long thread to read.
@8bitstellar next time just steal from http://www.fakemusicgenerator.com/

Good link. Ill be sure to steal from this link from here on out. (sarcasm)

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2 Reply by 8BitStellar

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nordloef wrote:

But "his" music is still available online. Just saying...

Well I won't be going under 8BitStellar anymore. The copyrighted material that still lingers, well, can't do much about that. It's spread to foreign sites and whatnot. Nothing we can do about that now.

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3 Reply by 8BitStellar

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I've decided to go do something about it. I have pretty much ripped myself a new one committing treachery amongst the people of this community. As of now, I am making my own tracks, without using other people's work to claim as my own.

I am giving back what was not mine to begin with; taking the lesson of being an asshat, a digital thief, and a compulsive liar. What I did was in my opinion, unforgivable.

How to make it up to y'all i do not know. But we all make mistakes and I wish to be given a second chance to redeem myself and what little reputation I have in this community.

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4 Reply by 8BitStellar

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-Removed Grooveshark

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5 Reply by 8BitStellar

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Well either, it might go down like this:

I take down the tracks in any manner, reimburse the artists affect by percentage gained or just a flat payment. We settle on something and go our separate ways...

Or...

I do the above steps and y'all file a lawsuit on me, regardless.

Im just coming out clean and admitting my faults. I'm taking full responsibility of whatever happens after. Do what you must, I'm not here to point fingers or say don't do this and this.


In all seriousness, I will comply to the affected artists requests as long as it's in plausible parameters. You can hate me all you want. It's not goin to change the fact that I was in the wrong. And yes, I don't have to do anything, but why leave infringed work on the net anyways.

I ask myself that question. Lastly, I AM going to take the music down.

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6 Reply by 8BitStellar

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double post

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7 Reply by 8BitStellar

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I uploaded through Reverbnation, which I believe to be a distribution site. I am under no contract. I deleted my Reverb account, but the music is still on the other sites. All I want is to move forward after everything is said and done. I have not committed any crime against the chiptune community since the ordeal I pulled in 2010. I will do what I can to make things right between myself and the affected artists like yourself Sabrepulse.

Shirobon wrote:

Well.. it's good to have come out, but from convos i've seen you have said to have made '200-300 bucks in one year alone'.

So in all honestly that sum of profit you have made should be spit and sent to the artists who have put hard work onto creating the songs. It's not just theft of music.. it's also taking something personal

That would be the first step to setting things right!

I would have no problem looking at a royalties list and allocating who gets what and how much. I have no record of how much traffic went to what track and how much revenue was generated from said track.

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8 Reply by 8BitStellar

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Ricky Brugal wrote:
8BitStellar wrote:

I don't deserve your forgiveness, but I would gladly appreciate if you didn't come at me with pitchforks.

Maaan, fuck you. You don't get to make these kinds of requests after what you pulled. If you realize how thoroughly you fucked up and how thoroughly wrong you are you should realize that people are legitimately angry and have the right to come at you however they see fit, and you haven't done nearly enough to earn the benefit of the doubt moving forward. All you can and should do is try to move forward from it. But no, you don't get to eat off of people's hard work and then respond with this indignant bullshit.

Fuck you.

Well what am I supposed to do? This stuff doesnt come as nothing to me. I know I did wrong, this is on me. If you came at me with a pitchfork, well, how am I supposed to react to that? I havent had anything to do with music since 2010. No revenue/royalties have been claimed. As I mentioned this to Sebastian, the money coming in to a previously terminated account falls into a void; gobbled up by Reverb.

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9 Reply by 8BitStellar

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Bunnymajs wrote:

Interesting turn of events.. I'll wait with giving any kind of reply

Edit: No.. no.. I'll say something right now; WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?
Asshat, yes! Stupid, YES! What the actual fuck..

I try to be a nice person in general but this has had me so god damn frustrated and angry for days!
Bah.. The reason i found out about this was that a fan of mine thought I HAD STOLEN IT!
Asking "Why does two of your songs sound exactly the same as this dudes?"..

What can I do to alleviate your anxiety? Other than taking the music down, which takes time and cannot be fulfilled right this second. ((though I am working on it)).

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10 Reply by 8BitStellar

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You see this too much. A humble apology stating the actions that I made were wrong and yada yada yada.

So Ill keep this quick.

The music will be taken down.
I have not claimed royalties for a very long time.
I have not created any accounts inassociation with the infringed music, like Spotify, Amazon, Last.fm, Grooveshark etc.
Reverbnation distributed to Tunecore.
Tunecore never responds to customer support.
Spotify has no contact solution.
Amazon has not responded to my request.
Last.FM said they removed my profile page, which I did not make.
WTF is Grooveshark.

Basically.

I was an asshat. I tore myself a new one with this. I want to make this right and am taking action to remove the infringed files. These are not mine to take without permission, nor use. Most of you are asking, just why? And frankly, I could not recollect why I did in the first place. I don't deserve your forgiveness, but I would gladly appreciate if you didn't come at me with pitchforks. In all other things, send DMCA notices to the sites that request Original Creators, and I will work to get the other sites that don't require them, taken down.

From this point on, you will not see me doing this again. Sebastian has offered me a chance to redeem myself later, but in all seriousness, Im not ready to move on, until we ALL are ready to move forward. And there will be those, like Bunnymajs and others aching to seek justice whom I will never be granted redemption for the damage I caused him and his fans.

Im not a bad person. I was back then, and from the looks of things now, I do have time to do some good in this community.

EDIT: If you need to get ahold of me today, send me an email at [email protected]. For all other posts made in regards to this on the thread, I will respond when I come back to it.

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