Thanks you guys. Also, @Infernus Animositas, if you're already in trouble for something else, you'd want to distance yourself from anything else that could worsen things. So I think I'll refrain.
by RebeccaSugar at 10:21 AM EST on January 7, 2015
Always use encryption, torrents I think cannot encrypt you when you upload, Deluge and qBittorrent are good for torrents, you risk only if you upload- usually the popular torrents are riskier. Transmission is good but that is a non-windows program.
It really depends what you need help with, I'll try to help but I'm no wizard.
It's not illegal if you don't get caught lol just don't mention it to anybody you know in law enforcement. It REALLY gets illegal if you try to sell the music or generate some kind of money for profit in your favor.
Pretty sure this is one of those legal situations where you'd get sued, not arrested. Also, in the case of non-torrents, it'd be the person hosting the files, not the person downloading them (torrents, obv, everyone's the host). Also, in the case of reality, if anything it'd be a strongly worded letter/email telling the host to take shit down, because I can't imagine anyone bothering otherwise.
@dj4uk6cjm This, no one here would be stupid enough to try something like that, I'm hoping.
@fridgey
Especially if it's a small company, they won't send letters, unless you're silly enough to use popular torrent sites while using Utorrent and Bittorrent, comcast usually looks into it, the rest don't, I've never had comcast actually, I hear they're pretty uptight about it.
@WrappedInBlack
Don't drop the soap you sexy little fiend, or do it. My treat!~ ;)
Yeah, I was speaking more to web-hosted files there. I honestly have a hard time believing any vg company is taking the time to monitor bt for music piracy... they're worried about the games themselves. However, I guess could see a big company shooting off an email to someone hosting a giant archive with a copy of every soundtrack to every game they ever released.
Realistically you are probably safe downloading the odd soundtrack, most of which aren't commercially available anyway, so it is more illegal than it is immoral in my opinion. If you're uploading and redistributing game soundtrack rips en-mass you might need to be a bit more careful. :P
@Lunar: We had sites like SNESMusic.org, HVSC64.org, Project2612.org and others work for decades without a single C&D letter issued.
More over, if anything, sites like these received praise from actual game composers, not to mention 'recognition' by actual game companies (IIRC one of Capcom's OST compilations used track names from SNESMusic.org set).
Speaking as a maintainer of pmh, if I get a C&D letter from a company, of course I will comply. They have full legal rights for how their copyrighted work is handled. What we are doing is, to quote SNESMusic.org, "for educational and personal non-profit use only, offered as fair use samples for preservation purposes only".
Hopefully nothing like that will happen. Hell, if archive.org can offer few dozen thousand of games, I don't think anything will take offense at what we're doing.
Agreed with Knurek, the rightsholders have historically been disinterested. I've never heard of any company taking issue with music rip archives, while it is entirely within their right to do so.
I'd stuff two birds with one bone and feast on their nuggets, If I wanted more music then I'd have a blast, literally on different levels!~ (✿ ♥‿♥) UNF!~
@hcs
I feel as it gives them more exposure rather than as if they took it down, different people have different ways of doing things. I'm unsure about this but resident evil links got banned in ff.shrine because sony got assblasted about people downloading the music, now it's not as big as let's say...Super Mario 3D World, I bought the Mario album myself because it's pretty damn great, I could have bought Danganronpa another episode instead with that money though since no one has shared it, D'oh!