Timbaland stole scenemusic (orig amiga mod)

[hooligan]

Too bad its pretty impossible for Tempest to sue the mf

[hooligan]

@Mailman

Proving Tempest did the mod is hardly a task. Its been already proven by the Assembly orgs and scene.org. I can volunteer to testify also, was one of the listeners during the compo ;-)

In an ideal world the finnish department of the record company would get in touch with Tempes, say sorry and hand him a few thousand euros settlement. Lets not forget the album where the track is has sold 2.5 million or so.

[hooligan]

Update to my earlier figure (2.5mio), its over 3.7 million sold copies, that 2.5 mio was oooold figure

[hooligan]

If six trillion flies think sh1t is good, you dont have to agree

[hooligan]

"Don't really understand what all this fuss is about."

As a demoscener and a long time scenemusician I dont understand your comment at all. If I interpret you correctly, in your honest opinion its ok to steal someones melody (not a 4 sec sample, a basis for a song), put it on a several millions sold album and get paid for it.. and thats just ok?

Few years back it was almost a lynchmob at your door if you were caught for ripping someones samples from a mod...

[hooligan]

"But what if the same melody was sampled by an unknown producer and put on an album selling only 50,000 copies instead? We would be here saying "genius!" or "fscking cool! he's got an amiga!" or "oh god! this man knows the scene!" to him, wouldn't we?"

I would say cut his balls and feed them to pigs :-D