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Typing "download mp3" into a search engine, more often than not, leads to either a site that hosts it with the artist's intent to gain a monetary profit, or a site that is illegally hosting the music. Just because you can doesn't mean you should, nor do is it make it correct to do.

There are artists who have supplied permission to create content under the contingency that their audio files cannot be downloaded. What you're suggesting doesn't quite fall into this though, but is slightly correlative: FFR doesn't have the appropriate licenses to use these songs that can be found using a brief "download mp3" search, and are liable to get into trouble for hosting content that they do not own. Typically, this starts in the form of a DMCA takedown notice, but can be a bit more extreme with repeated infractions, if my memory serves me correctly.

You can't just say "hey, we don't give a shit that you want this taken down, this is the internet." It simply doesn't work that way.

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you have given me the courage i needed to go downstairs and eat ice cream for breakfast

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lmao its not an opinion its the law dude

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Typing "download mp3" into a search engine, more often than not, leads to either a site that hosts it with the artist's intent to gain a monetary profit, or a site that is illegally hosting the music. Just because you can doesn't mean you should, nor do is it make it correct to do.

There are artists who have supplied permission to create content under the contingency that their audio files cannot be downloaded. What you're suggesting doesn't quite fall into this though, but is slightly correlative: FFR doesn't have the appropriate licenses to use these songs that can be found using a brief "download mp3" search, and are liable to get into trouble for hosting content that they do not own. Typically, this starts in the form of a DMCA takedown notice, but can be a bit more extreme with repeated infractions, if my memory serves me correctly.

You can't just say "hey, we don't give a shit that you want this taken down, this is the internet." It simply doesn't work that way.

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cookies and cream bitches

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lol minacious

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Sea salt carmel

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I think he's arguing we pull some pirate bay shit and go host the server in Lithuania or something and say givashit to the police

A very terrible idea, but theoretically you could i guess?

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screw ice cream i'm getting some fried chicken mf

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Yes, they do get shut down, especially when they get really big. Not all of them get shut down because so many of them are so small and not worth the legal efforts. If FFR used artists' music without their permission, they could receive takedown requests and be forced to remove the files from game, resulting in loss of scores and unhappiness from the players and and steppers because of all the time they lost.

This has already happened on a large scale with osu!, and in fact has happened a few times for individual files on FFR when permissions were incorrect, unclear, or rescinded. If FFR violated artists' rights to their music on a large scale, it could also face legal suit which would ruin the website.

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Or we could just not do technically illegal things and instead enjoy the permissions we have for FFR already.

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that's what i would do. just transfer all the data to my computer because I'm smarter than a room full of lawyers.
I don't think any of that underground music ninja stuff will be happening but this is interesting to talk about nonetheless.

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probably top 3 ice cream flavors to eat for breakfast if i had to guess

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Back in the days, FFR used to make money with the game, via subscriptions. You can't have an org making money with other people's work, especially musical artists.

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The copyright sniffers send letters to the internet service providers requesting that they remove content or legal action will be taken. But what legal action is taken? If the internet freedom fighters took a stand it's not as if physical harm will be done to them. The worse case scenario is that a militia comes and basically rips the cords out of your computer but cmon folks if we all united together we are smarter than them. They need us dude don't you understand?

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you're gonna have to have a little more specificity in your diet if you wanna flex your intellect duder

how big is the room?

how big are the lawyers?

what area of law are they practicing?

we need to know these things if we're ever going to get an accurate delineation of your intelligence

I don't understand, but I like fairy tales so tell me more about internet freedom fighters and derogation of law

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I'm pretty happy that now days, if I want an album of music, I can listen to it on like youtube (not through red or their shit music app) before I buy it. Or, if I can't afford to get it, I can again, listen to it another way that some-what supports the artist.

We live in an age where honestly, unless you have a shit data-plan you don't really NEED to download music illegally.

Even if it's a hell of a lot more convenient / less annoying to do so. (Because seriously, fuck ads.)

What's more concerning is the cost of good internet and mobile data plans before they start slowing your connection down despite the fact you / your family pay for UNLIMITED use of the data.

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Or if you actually listen to a lot of music and aren't obscenely rich.