HAY GUYS

niki · Local time: Oct 17, 2006, 02:12 AM

I'd love to know the explanation behind the tons of Final Fantasy doujin music that is being sold in comikets and doujin shops every year in Japan. =/

Jam it back in, in the dark.

niki · Local time: Oct 17, 2006, 03:29 PM

I think it's more a "officially deny authorisation just in case ..." thing. They won't actually hunt you if you don't make profit with it or anything.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

niki · Local time: Oct 17, 2006, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by Elorin

Well, I've heard original FF8 and Xenogears music being used blatently in some old Taiwanese and Hong Kong drama serials.

Wow, in fucking series now? They sure got no shame ...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

niki · Local time: Oct 18, 2006, 08:17 AM

Heh ... That part about Doom and Robert Prince makes me sad. Funny how most often, your view of things is darkened when you enter the details.

Not all are like this, though. Alice Soft allows their old games to be dowloaded, for example.

http://retropc.net/alice/

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

niki · Local time: Oct 18, 2006, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by Kairi Li

Before I know about Square's iron fist on everything they own, I wanted to report the stuff I saw on TV to them, but now I really don't think they deserve to know. Sure HK TV people are cheap bastards, but if Square's gonna get all uppity about it if they find out its their problem for not looking out. Interesting that despite their huge fan base in Taiwan and HK, no one reported this, guess Key is much more popular company than Square.

Yeah well ... It's easy to tell this from out user-end view. Maybe granting permission to arrange their copyrighted material is much more complicated on a juridic plan, and that it could lead to issues for them when suing actual copyright breakers.

Just saying, it's easier to say "NO" to everyone to be able to choose who you actually want to presecute later.

I was speaking idiomatically.

niki · Local time: Oct 18, 2006, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by Spikey

Here's a killer for you- Mark Seibert, composer of a lot of Sierra games, wants to make new recordings of the old games' music. But he won't, or won't release them, because of Vivendi's policy of noone using their copyright. In his own words, "I don't want a lawsuit or any of that hassle, it's just not worth it.".

Ah well, it's disgusting, but we know what to expect from huge corporations like Vivendi ... I mean, It's not by the will of the artist himself.

But yeah, it sucks.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?