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What do you have to do to make a simfile legal to download?
 
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0. PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2006 6:59 pm    Post subject: What do you have to do to make a simfile legal to download? Reply with quote
Stepmania and Dance With Intensity require simfiles to play. You can either take your mp3s and turn them into songs, or you can download them.

There is a lot of opinions when it comes to downloading simfiles. Is it legal? Is there a difference between the legality of offical simfiles and unoffical? Is it legal to download a simfile without offical banners and background and stepcharts? Is it legal if you own the song on an arcade machine or console game to download it?

Does anyone know if what you have to do to make a simfile legal to download? And if it isn't legal in any case, why does flash flash revolution and bemanistyle offer hundereds of simfiles free without being shut down?
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1. PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
this is stickied and yes its legal

but who cares if its legal or not? the government would change that law if they actually did ddr or listen to music.
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2. PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you were to download a simfile with no song inside of it, you've basically removed yourself from any possibility (albeit originally small) of getting in legal trouble.
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3. PostPosted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes its illegal.
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4. PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A Beautiful Collision wrote:
Yes its illegal.

But no one cares.
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5. PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Non-licensed MP3 = legal

Licensed MP# = might as well be legal
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