framework laptops disagrees. heavily.
the entirety of the varieties linux distribution communities disagrees.
They have an entire user base to give them ideas on as wellâŚ
having these donât mean anything. roblox is operating at a loss of 495.1 million dollars, there stock has tanked, it was either lose a crap tone of money that they will never get back or us developers having a slight inconvenience if a while
care to elaborate how it doesnt mean anything
I think it means a lot when this entire music lawsuit things has existed for YEARS
and youâre the one always saying roblox knows what they are doing, how did they not prepare for THIS out of all things?
this decision is abominable
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Thank you for this new change! 
Keep it up Roblox Team!
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This is just ridiculous. Millions if not billlions of robux went to nothing because Roblox randomly decided that because of audio some developers have uploaded Roblox might get sued.
Why havenât they thought about this earlier, from the moment the platform has exploded in terms of popularity they should have known they will possibly get sued because of the audio.
This and the animation change will surely make some developer just straight up leave Roblox and move to a new engine (Godot,âŚ)
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this decision shouldâve been made long ago. same goes with the animation update
all of my gun animation are now half structured, and now it going to become a silent film
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twitch is in the same boat has roblox right now. they have told and forced some streamers to delete all there vods, it doesnât matter if your company has divisions or millions of employees, copyright law to companies is very serious, in 2009 youtube was sued for a billion dollars because people were uploading anime onto the website thatâs why they have a content ID system
Also instead of doing this they should actually improve the search for audio. Letâs say I search for gun shot I get some random music that is completely unrelated made by roblox, and that is about 50% the rest is like 20% audio that canât even play.
Tbh the best way to handlw the situation is easy. Roblox could have just made an auto AI thing like what they have with models with viruses.
Youtube was sued, and won that court case as they fell under safe harbor laws.
Music Companies are needlessly aggressive for no other reason than that they think some kid playing a Roblox game with some audio is going to make a negative impact on their wallets.
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Does this also mean that radios and boomboxes will not work anymore? From what Iâve read, Iâm taking a guess that commands like :music in popular administation commands like Adonis will not work anymore, and the boombox gears will just be something that will soon be history of some good memories.
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ok, we first need to acknowledge what the lawsuit against roblox is saying
the lawsuit cites multiple times it seemingly doesnt even try to get rid of copyrighted music and went as far as saying they encouraged it
so why not model the update after that fact? make it look like you are trying
its not really that hard to ruin a bunch oâ games
im now going to cope harder and eat mint ice cream
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Okay how on earth do I âshareâ the sound so it works for other users?
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i am not talking about the old lawsuit from 2021, they might have been threated with a new one from an even larger music company. since this update seems rushed
didnt they already remove a lot of music due to copyright in 2019~? why is that a case now?
Wasnt the death sound going to be removed or changed? Because that was big in early 2020
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if you feel that way then i do not know what to tell you chief
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They wonât work anymore. Radios will only work if the audio used is uploaded by the person who created the experience, or Roblox.
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Gotta love that the 99% of the negative responses on this post are people who steal audio.
Regardless, this is a great update. I make sound effects under a different name and my effects have been stolen a multitude of times by people. Have been reuploaded. Have been pushed completely out of my hands. Itâs unfair considering that I put hours into my work. Robbed of money.
Developers want money from their games but, theyâre totally fine robbing money from the people who make their sounds. Itâs pretty messed up if you think about it.
The fact that Roblox took measures against this is unexpectedly incredible. Theyâre starting to actually value work that audio creators put in. Theyâre starting to take IP ownership/copyright infringement seriously.
If youâre mad about that, look into a mirror and really grasp why youâre even on this platform or better yet, put yourself in the shoes of someone who gets their work stolen. Would you like your hard work reuploaded? Sound effects are not simple. Thereâs a lot of tweaking, sampling, etc. It takes a while to get right.
In the industry of sounds and music, companies require specific licenses from the author to be able to publish, use or play forms of work. Thatâs how people make money off what they create. When you have a marketplace that effectively bypasses that, you are infringing someone elseâs hard work.
Unless audio was cleared (I.e verified in writing by the original author that you can use it), it canât be used. Therefore, all of the audio that people have to change out of their games is actually a protection against you. Because guess what? Youâre infringing on someone elseâs work.
On top of that, audio is free to upload with limits. I mean, I donât know what more you people could want. This helps everyone. Protects you. Values peopleâs work and removes the need to spend robux for audio.
Some people just canât be happy with stuff.