Square, why the paranoia about the game's music?

[lord_naarghul]

I've never seen a company crack down as hard on a community for putting the game's music on YouTube. The company cared not one bit when 1.0 was around, but now that you've launched the game again, any mention of having any piece of sound from 1.0 or 2.0 and you come down hard with copyright claims.

It seems a bit excessive. Especially considering you have other MMOs or games with full soundtracks up and absolutely no issue has been brought up by the company. If you're so concerned with lost revenue, then why not just put ads in the videos and be done with it?

The only reason I can fathom is a release of the soundtrack in digital media will be forthcoming. If so, then fantastic! I'll be buying it, as the music is great.

[Krasus]

The same reason why popular musicians do the same, because they believe that eliminating other sources of the music will encourage people to buy the soundtrack.

[lord_naarghul]

The same reason why popular musicians do the same, because they believe that eliminating other sources of the music will encourage people to buy the soundtrack.

But there's no official soundtrack yet. And most copyright claims come from the record companies, not the musicians themselves.

[KraggyKor]

The same reason why popular musicians do the same, because they believe that eliminating other sources of the music will encourage people to buy the soundtrack.

Becasue God forbid the CREATOR of a work hasn't the right to decide if and when they make it available.

[Aaron_T]

So... this is a rough subject for me.
My personal philosophy is... all information should be free, even music,
So I kind of side with you.

Then again, they pay money for copyrights, it is their creation.
I dunno, I'm kind of torn in half about this debate.

(The FF2 Boss music remix from reborn is my ringtone btw)
SORRY!!

[lord_naarghul]

Becasue God forbid the CREATOR of a work hasn't the right to decide if and when they make it available.

God I despise freetards.

I'll point out again that most of the time in those cases, copyright claims come from the record companies, not usually from the musicians. I'm no "freetard" - I pay for all of my music - but YouTube and Hulu have methods by which they can still get revenue to the people who want it. If that wasn't the case, then Hulu wouldn't exist at all.

[Aaron_T]

Youtube's been cracking down a lot on it too.
Like, lots of people used to record gameplay and do like a podcast thing
with gameplay as video.

A lot of people were making money from doing this.
But they are really cracking down on that kind of stuff.

Like... if you show GTA5 cutscenes.... Rockstar is gonna get very upset.

[Krasus]

Becasue God forbid the CREATOR of a work hasn't the right to decide if and when they make it available.

I'm not sure why your post is in response to mine I have no issue with what they do, simply stating the facts.

But there's no official soundtrack yet. And most copyright claims come from the record companies, not the musicians themselves.

Your right it IS the record companies that handle the claims but I doubt the musicians didn't play a part in it. Everyone wants to go platinum

[LordSideKicks]

Sadly almost nothing is free in this world. Sound included.

[MeeDeggiThePunisher]

Can we at least get some kind of radio or music player for our inn/houses if you insist on removing the music from youtube. Or just sell it, that's good too.