Did Producer Timbaland Steal From the Demoscene?

[Giana]

Hi all,
Interesting ... Please read this.
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/01/14/0113234.shtml

Giana

[Piru]

Covered here too.

Also see http://pelulamu.net/timbaland/ for tons of links.

[balrogsoft]

This things usually happens, exist thousands of songs, is possible that some songs sounds similar. I had a rock group some years ago, we made a lot of songs, a couple years ago i found a song of Billy Corgan that have the same tune that one of our songs, and he made the song after we composed our song, but it's impossible that Billy Corgan heard our song, is a simple coincidence.

Anyway, it sounds really similar, not only the main tune...

[hooligan]

@Balrogsoft

Yep. But in this case such evidences were presented that leaves no room for guessing.

[da9000]

@balrogsoft:

you should also listen to the ring-tone by Timbafuckenland (from the same guy who did the YouTube video), it's identical to the original!!! It is _not_ just coincidence... "sounds the same". No, it's IS the same

Hope these MTV fanboys (all the ones that live off of MTV and made by MTV) die!

[LoadWB]

This is more than just coincidence, for certain.  When processed, you can hear the original in the background of the song "Do It."  Not just sounds like it, but IS IT recorded into the song.

Look, if you're going to steal, don't be so stupid as to include the evidence of the crime.  Cripes, these are probably the same people who video themselves breaking into a house and leave the tape behind.  (Or DVD, or memory card, or whatever your favorite recording media is :-))

[weirdami]

or whatever your favorite recording media is

stone and chisel?

[Tomas]

This things usually happens, exist thousands of songs, is possible that some songs sounds similar. I had a rock group some years ago, we made a lot of songs, a couple years ago i found a song of Billy Corgan that have the same tune that one of our songs, and he made the song after we composed our song, but it's impossible that Billy Corgan heard our song, is a simple coincidence.

If you did listen to the song, then you should also have heard that it was more than just similarity and a couple of samples stolen. You can actually hear the sid/mod running in background of the nelly furtado song if you listen carefully.

[Wilse]

I hope something is done about this.

[nadoom]

Yes something should be done about this, we cannot let this purp get away with it!


Its amazing that he could steal that and so blatently call it his own original work, we should mount a campaign, amiga style.

word!

[weirdami]

I watched the second video on youtube (the one about the ringtones). At the end, where youtube puts links to related videos, there's a link to another coopting suckage. Some lame took the title of the ringtones video and made one of those lame still pictures fading in and out videos promoting childhood cancer. It's somehow worse than the Timbaland thing. :-(

[cv643d]

I dont think this guy is so involved. It is probably some of his employee who came up with some cool sounds, he is maybe involved in the demo scene himself, then he gives a new "beat" to timberland and he aproves it and stamps his name on the tune.

So I hope he feels like a dumbass now that he is made an idiot on the net by stealing C64 music haha... that is so gangstah!  :lol:

[Rob]

Just sent details and a few links to BBC Radio1's Newsbeat, hopefully they might pick the story up.  Maybe I should forward it to some of the DJ's too.

[Homer]

Excellent ! Result !!
Well, anyway, I hope they do something with it  :-D

[weirdami]

I hope they do something with it

Yeah, lots of publicity is as good as cash, which helps out the guy that has to go up against Timbalands lawyer zoo.