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Author: dkarma on September 15 2008 Viewed 1550 times. 7 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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So some of you may remember my thread a while back where a "buddy" took all my loops and basically used our jam time to further his local "career".
So he played a show in a local bar on 9/11. I have no problem with that, but he played MY TRACK!!!
My first decent(IMO) track I made in AP6 like 1.5 years ago he stole and put an additional midi track over what I had written, did some more editing, and played MY TRACK! That's not even the worst part. HE GOT PAID!
If he had asked I would have said no. In fact I told him a while back that he could not play that specific song live.
Should I:
a) do nothing
b) beat him senseless
c) demand money
d) break his technic 1200s
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09/15/08
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tunalicker
i did not like this blog. however, i think you can continue as you are original and compose your own bits.
Obviously stealing creates nothing and generates only temporary benefits. I have known a lot of musicians that worked really hard (cover bands, keyboard soundbank makers, composers) who had stuff ripped. Its hard to know who you can trust sometimes. I hope you get a better groove going.
People can ripoff physical property, but they can't take your creative ability.
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dkarma
it's wierd because I didn't really spend a lot of time on the track...maybe 3 hours.
The thing that gets me is that I told him specifically not to use the track.
Only because I hadn't played it live yet and I didn't want people to think that it was his track.
Now I've got to toss it because anyone who's a regular there (its a small local hangout) will think I'm covering him.
I don't even really care about the $$.
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breakscience
Laptop battle at the local hangout!!! pwn his face hard.
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implexgrace
you're gonna give up your music because some dildo played it live?
just edit it further, and say that you made the original if anyone asks about it
simple as that.. call him out in public
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lilt
play more gigs
get really popular
steal his girlfriend
eat kumara
09/16/08
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astroid
well you're not gonna get proper revenge on him by whining about it in a blog.
figure out his entire schedule, and the layout of his house. does he have shlage locks or kwikset? youtube 'bump key'.
now the tricky part will be crafting your revenge so that it has nothing to do with you. start building your alilbi now. the most preferable would be to lure him into doing something highly illegal and getting caught and thrown in prison for a good ten years. another good solution would be trapping him into an abusive domestic partnership with yourself, something where you can gradually make him give himself stomach cancer from too much stress. that'd show him to take your midi track and develop it without your current approval.
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astroid
ok ok
here's what you sure do. register the title of your tune with ascap. also, make sure you have proof that it's yours. put the midi file on a disk and mail it to yourself or some shit.
let him get rich and famous and forget and put your song on his breakthrough album. then, sue sue sue. money money money. then buy me a ps3.
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tylth
knock on his door, poop in your hand and when he opens up throw it at his face. make sure to dinner at taco bell the evening before
thats the way a real man takes revenge
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sAMsKi
i don't think 'option d' is possible?
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daswesen
just steal one of astroids songs and play it at your next gig.
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evilai
if you want revenge then there's really only one thing you can do: wait until he's had his first kid pref a girl but a boy might do. once he's had the child kidnap him and hold him captive for for 18-21 years and then release him. arrange it that once he's free he meets and falls in love the with the daughter he's never met. once they're happily in love, and doing the nasty, kidnap him again. you need show him some pictures of his daughter growing up. it's not going to click that it's his daughter until you get tot he very end of the photo album, when the penny drops and you'll have suitable done his head in.
the key to the whole thing, is to have the stolen track playing in the background while he's going through the photo album
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Radio909
I love that film lol
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tylth
yeah make him eat a living octopus
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prugelknaben
i had a project once. i put together a jazz group, and we played a few standards and coversongs some of them in odd but good versions. it was my project, with my name on it, i had a pretty clear image of what i wanted it to be, so i brought the tunes and the ideas for the styles and the arrangements to the table.
suddenly i found out that one of the musicians used our songs/arrangements/ideas when he was doing his regular jazzclub gigs with other people. sure, its not illegal, but it pissed me off. if he had been a good friend, i would have told him, but i just stopped working with him.
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u8myreel
make a track that says " [insert his name here] is a rip off merchant doop dee doo... " etc to rip him publicly next time you do a gig. easy.
like in that track where john b gets ripped by twisted individual or is the other way round?
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