thewooleymammoth Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 I was thinking about creating a website which allowed direct download of frets on fire songs (frets on fire is a computer version of guitar hero) but i was wondering about the lagality of it. Do you think it could be legal with a disclaimer saying the user must legally own an original copy of the song before downloading? tell me what you guys think, thanks. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74779-solved-frets-on-fire-site/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gath Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Altought i had some interest on Guitar Hero, i never actually played it, or even saw it. That said, this isnt the place to know if something is legal or not. Altought i'm starting to hate this sentence, but, 'google is your friend'. Also, after that said. Even if it's illegal... that doenst make it less profitable. Also, after saying this... if you actually make something 'illegal' you will be hated by a million people, and you better make sure your site is secure... to the extreme. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74779-solved-frets-on-fire-site/#findComment-378381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted October 28, 2007 Author Share Posted October 28, 2007 cant find anything on google, and where should i ask if its legal??? thanks for your advice thouhg Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74779-solved-frets-on-fire-site/#findComment-379859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbullmarky Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 and where should i ask if its legal??? a lawyer? seriously - if you're gonna be looking at making some £££ from this, you got to be prepared to do some proper homework and perhaps invest a little cash. for legal stuff, you're asking the wrong people altogether. a lawyer won't need to know much about PHP to tell you if it's wrong or not and what measures you'll need to take. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74779-solved-frets-on-fire-site/#findComment-379920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted October 28, 2007 Author Share Posted October 28, 2007 hmm well i wasnt planning on making money, and eh im not gonna call a lawyer over it i just wont do it. thanks again Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74779-solved-frets-on-fire-site/#findComment-379947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gath Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 There's a simpler sulotion, altought the answer might never arrive: Ask the owner! Ask the company making frets, if you are allowed to do that, or not. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74779-solved-frets-on-fire-site/#findComment-380514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted December 24, 2007 Author Share Posted December 24, 2007 There's a simpler sulotion, altought the answer might never arrive: Ask the owner! Ask the company making frets, if you are allowed to do that, or not. thats a good idea, ive already decided not to do this though Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74779-solved-frets-on-fire-site/#findComment-422241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadimp Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 As pessimistic as it sounds, you can't really leave it up to end-user honesty to prevent the songs from being illegaly downloaded. You might need a little more restriction than that, and you might have to end up contacting the company to make sure. That being said, how are these songs originally available? Are they downloadable via the official website, and if so what disclaimer do they have there? And to the whole purpose of the site, why would they need to download the song if they already own it? I can understand why someone who already owns a game would want to download a ROM, but as for a song on a computer game that can be ripped, I dunno. Maybe it'd be safer just to give instruction/tools defining how to get the song themselves. Of course, that's still shaky grounds. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74779-solved-frets-on-fire-site/#findComment-430879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 the game itself is for free, however you can download user created tracks which take some time and energy to create, so its alot easier to download them. However my question pertains to wether or not it is possilbe to create a site to download the precrated songs with the guitar chords attached to them Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74779-solved-frets-on-fire-site/#findComment-431657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taorluath Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 I get what you're saying. Since all the songs in FoF are composed of a song and the notes that you need to play, you're wondering if downloading the SONG part is legal? I can't believe it's legal. Music producers never want to give any songs away free. If I remember right, FoF only comes with a few songs, right? That's probably because they don't want to get into any legal trouble. But no one really cares. I don't think any one would ever go to your site and then decide to sue you or anything. Personally, I've downloaded loads of FoF songs from different sites. None of them complain about any legal action taken against them. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74779-solved-frets-on-fire-site/#findComment-433043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
revraz Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Well remember back awhile ago they made downloading TABS illegal? I would think this would be worse than TABS. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74779-solved-frets-on-fire-site/#findComment-433053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted January 7, 2008 Author Share Posted January 7, 2008 wow really? i never know they made tabs illigal, crazy, i suppose thats true it would be much worse then tabs, however they havnt made a law specifically against it yet Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74779-solved-frets-on-fire-site/#findComment-433098 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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