ollaxe wrote:...I probably won't upload my FTM:s and NSF:s publically anymore because of this. At least not as long as I'm as unknown of an artist as I am, which I don't excpect to change very soon. Instead I'm going to start uploading all my music to youtube, because then I can use ContentID to avoid things like this going unnoticed for as long as it did. My guess is that others here may also get similar trust issues from this experience. Even if you pay everything back to the community, you'll still have damaged its openness, and there's nothing you can do to fix that. I want you to think about this before you even consider stealing from any artists again.
Milos wrote:<...>THIS is why I don't share here or publicly FTMs anymore. THIS is why I'm even scared to put my FTMs on BotB to be honest. THIS is why I share them as a support bonus for buying my albums and THIS is why my trust for the people on the internet is getting lower and lower each day.
Overlord99 wrote:All I'll say is that I'm glad I stopped posting my FTMs publicly. This is exactly the type of thing I'm worried will happen otherwise.
Threxx wrote:Overlord99 wrote:All I'll say is that I'm glad I stopped posting my FTMs publicly. This is exactly the type of thing I'm worried will happen otherwise.
And this is the problem with thieves in general. People become paranoid about posting their work and the community at large suffers.
This is the true reason why the actions are unforgivable, combined with the profit.
So this is how one(?) bad apple can ruin the whole collab/sharing community, it seems.

Half the point of the community here was to learn from how other people did things, and that's now impossible if nobody can share source material anymore. What Milos is doing with locking the FTM files behind an album purchase is a reasonable solution, but I fear that a huge amount of the group creativity of the famitracker/0cc scene is just ... gone.
It may be affecting other tracker scenes as well.
LN