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Timbaland responds to stealing accusations

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

After presenting the very convincing evidence that Timbaland stole from a chiptune producer, he responds on a radio show. This line explains it all:
“It’s from a video game, idiot”
So, Timbaland, which video game is that? Would you like to help us realize we’re wrong? Oh, you probably can’t. And he says it’s sampling, even though […]

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Microdisco looking for submissions for microCrime

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

With the recent stories on music theft in the chiptune/micromusic scene, microdisco wants to release a responding compilation, titled microCrime. From the site:
Burglary, Assassination & Gold Heist
microdisco is requesting new and unreleased tracks for our next compilaton: microCrime After the recent stories of people stealing lowtech music, we thougt it would be a […]

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Won’t someone please think of the producers!

Monday, January 15th, 2007

As if the whole Fitts For Fight thing was not enough, there is speculation that Timbaland stole from a micromusic producer Janne Suni aka Tempest. This went on Slashdot, Digg, and Something Awful. There is also a video of the evidence (embedded below). Timbaland had really good beats, what happened?

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Stop Fitts For Fight, part two

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

In the not too distant past I wrote a post about Fitts For Fight’s blatant ripping of music. Well the issue is picking up some action. Garreth Morris from Micromusic NL HQ has started a petition to stop Fitts For Fight from stealing micromusic.
This is a big issue for any creatives in any profession and […]

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Grand Theft uh, Micro Music?

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Yeah, they don’t give a damn (Photo taken from micromusic.net).
There has been a lot of talk about Fitts for Fight, as it seems that they are blatantly stealing other people’s music and claiming it as their own. I took a listen to some of the tracks, and it seems to me that this band is […]

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