if they got in trouble for making people pay to upload copyrighted audio, then they should have made them free in the first place
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i have incredibly mixed feelings on this update
on one hand we have free audio uploads, and on another we have every audio over 6 seconds going private
6 seconds isnt that much, and a lot of sound effects can go over that limit. why not 10 or 15 seconds?
i tend to use a few obscure and free sounds and now i have absolutely no replacements.
several ambient sounds in many of my games wont be present when this goes into effect and about half of the music in another game im working on wont be present either
i can understand this system being the result of a legal issue but we have virtually no time to prepare for this
im all for the new privacy system but its not even finished! a lot of games are going to either have missing sounds (or none at all) for at least a few weeks
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for at least a few weeks
Thatâs a generous assumption. Many developers do not actively maintain their games, i.e for being old games or just updates that are highly infrequent. This will undoubtedly have a massive negative impact on the design of nearly every existing game, and permanently for the aforementioned developers.
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Or at least 2-3 minutes. And the only reason why Roblox got copyrighted that bad is because you had to pay to upload audio and so they made money off of it.
this is an awesome update i cant wait 
I can understand them making audio free because of this.
But ruining tons of games? thatâs actually an awful thought.
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You can use an extension to download the audio than reupload it to Roblox. Which is what Iâve done.
Thatâs technically pirating, even if the audio isnât theirs either.
This most likely will be flagged after the update as copyright infringement, even if the creator of the audio intended that use.
This lawsuit is causing roblox to take a zero tolerance policy stance on it, so donât be surprised if all of these reuploaded audios get flagged.
yeah that is a good idea, but please state why anyone should be having to do this? when someone makes an audio public, they essentially provided the ability to all roblox players to use that audio for free regardless of what happened. they spent money to contribute some audio to roblox. not to mention the fact that this will cause a lot of audios that could be used, to go unused due to the privacy rules meaning that possibly good music thatâs uncopyrighted could go without notice and slip away forever into some deep cavern. this also means that people WITHOUT the luxury of having 2k maximum audios will have to waste a lot of their time getting accounts to upload audios to a group instead of just dealing with having it public in the first place. not to mention the fact that this is technical piracy in and of itself, as they themselves, as mentioned gave you the right to use it, not to keep it and own it forever. they, the owner should have full control over their audio, not you. also, should i mention that this dismisses the entire update? this just dismisses it completely? who wouldâve thought that a roblox update can be summed up as bad by explaining it
Free audio is great! And something i wanted for a long time! but⌠what if i wanted to upload an audio that i made myself for everybody to use? Would it have to be under 6 seconds?? If so thats just stupid. Some people when they upload music for THEYRE game they make it public for everybody to use. These audios are usually over 6 seconds⌠Does that mean i wont be able to use them? And not everybody wants to use generic stock musicâŚ
Im happy about the free audios and i think thats a good change! But reading all of these peopleâs replies is worryingâŚ
Why? Because users are uploading audio that is not theirs to share, and sharing it to the public. This is not legal. Do you understand that?
By the way how does the upload limit work now? I know some people can only do 10 uploads a month,
But Iâm able to do 2000 Uploads per month, and I havenât verified my age for my account, I only have an email connected to my account and thatâs about it
This is a real pity seeing as now I will have to reupload some sounds just to use them. Not to mention you canât even use sounds you upload to your profile to a group you own. Very disappointing
Is there a way to have it at least 15 or 30 seconds instead of 6 seconds?
this will destroy car games in general about at least half of car games that used other players engines sounds they made for this platform, that would also save maybe about 20% or 30% of all audios used in general.
This is good and bad
The good part is now you can upload audio for free.
bad part is most games will be silent because they took there audio from the library plus games with alot of sounds will take a while to get them all in there game agin.
and also now what will happen to all the radio gamepasses and stuff?
Exactly, I have a game with 7,000 current players and it heavily relies on audio and music. I also wonder about classic games like the normal elevator.
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guess what? youtube has a system to scan VIDEOS! for copyrighted material, is there any reason why a platform of this age shouldnât have an algorithm designed for scanning audio? no. there is not. so the fact that this is even a problem in a first place is just bad in general. also; why would roblox take their money if the audio was not theirs to own? there is a moderation team, so why canât there be a bot as well to scan to speedup the progress
also stop trying to act condescending for no reason at all, it does not make you look smarter, it makes you look annoying. if roblox had any concern about copyright, theyâd have developed their own basic algorithm back in 2018-2019. back when they were a âsmallerâ platform.
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Youâre joking right? Thatâs not going to be possible because every audio longer than 6 seconds is going to be private.