Re: 11th Official Tournament
It has nothing to do with a copyright -- it has to do with the fact that content in the tournament exists on custom engines and people are getting to access it early, when others don't have the means or knowledge on how to do that. Obviously it's less of an issue in higher divisions where most players know how to use the R^3 engine, but it's fucked up that this can even happen in the first place (not to mention anyone not native to that engine gets screwed too).
This could all be mitigated if content was promptly removed on custom engines when asked, but... well, when asked to remove the chart from FFRMania (which afaik is the only source to play the file), the response was simply "not my problem" and "it doesn't provide a real benefit."
While I do agree with the latter point in that practicing will probably do nothing more than harm you, there were rules in the past about content being removed from custom engines when files were in queue/put in game. Simply put, there are only two solutions to this problem - either the content gets removed accordingly, or preview videos stop so that the playfield is as leveled as possible for everyone. Unfortunately, we had to go with the latter.
It has nothing to do with a copyright -- it has to do with the fact that content in the tournament exists on custom engines and people are getting to access it early, when others don't have the means or knowledge on how to do that. Obviously it's less of an issue in higher divisions where most players know how to use the R^3 engine, but it's fucked up that this can even happen in the first place (not to mention anyone not native to that engine gets screwed too).
This could all be mitigated if content was promptly removed on custom engines when asked, but... well, when asked to remove the chart from FFRMania (which afaik is the only source to play the file), the response was simply "not my problem" and "it doesn't provide a real benefit."
While I do agree with the latter point in that practicing will probably do nothing more than harm you, there were rules in the past about content being removed from custom engines when files were in queue/put in game. Simply put, there are only two solutions to this problem - either the content gets removed accordingly, or preview videos stop so that the playfield is as leveled as possible for everyone. Unfortunately, we had to go with the latter.
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