[Action Needed] Upcoming Changes to Asset Privacy for Audio

Can agree. It is so annoying when it happens.

I am pretty sure that Roblox already gives you a refund when its blocked but I am not sure

Iā€™m flattered! You did some research on me! Somewhat creepy ngl, but ty I g! Nope, we didnā€™t take any from the anime, although we did take many from the toolbox! I think kamehameha would actually be under 6 secondsā€¦ Iā€™ll have to check! :slight_smile:

Damn bro, getting a lot of hate. Just putting my opinion out there. Look I read the entire post, and I have my opinion that this is good for the platform due to better asset protection, no need to rage!

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They do, i tried uploading ā€˜Music is movingā€™ by Cortina but it got blocked and i was refunded before this update.

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I too want thousands of older games completely, permanently, and irreversibly ruined so somebody canā€™t use a sound effect from my game.

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I was uploading audio due to my audio getting removed that I used from the toolbox, When it says a audio has been blocked when trying to upload a audio it takes the free upload and leaves the audio as copyrighted. They do refund, its if the audio is being newly uploaded with the free uploads it will take a free upload and copyright your music

Yeah and my opinion is that you donā€™t understand how bad this is anyway. The website will literally die!

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Iā€™m already not a fan of this period, but now the ability to undo an audio going private is going to be ā€œtemporarily pausedā€? This is absolutely inexcusable.

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In my opinion, Roblox should not have implemented the new limits during the two week period that everyone has to update their audios. Honestly it should be unlimitedly free during this time considering they are about to nuke years of content.

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Roblox, if we got 6k posts under a month you will have to revert this update.

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Dunno if I would say it would die but this update is definitely making roblox lose some developerā€™s/key ones. No developers = no money coming in. With this update quite literally breaking games, roblox is gonna be losing some of that sweet sweet robux along with radio gamepasses.

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How is that creepy? Your profile is public on a public domain just like your game.

Remember what you said about, maybe you SHOULDNT be doing that. :wink:

Maybe you shouldnā€™t be using other peoples assets in the first place. - Shiroudan

Weā€™re not mad at you weā€™re criticizing you for not doing research on the reply because youā€™re basically going with the flow of something you barely read and replied so lazily and I donā€™t hate you lol.

Please check! :wink:

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Took me over 12 hours to get 5 audios moderated and approved.

Nice system! /s

Iā€™d seriously rather pay.

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Letā€™s have Roblox see their developers replacing 10k songs from all of their games. Oh right, I forgot you can only upload 10 sounds without giving up your info. Hmmmā€¦

TY for being more civilized! The stalking thing was bit of a joke, but I am flattered that you opened the profile to check if I really was developing a game like I said :rofl: !

Hmmā€¦ True, although I only did it for ones under 6 seconds so Iā€™m safe!


Rip man, hardly got through the second hamae! Luckily itā€™s hxhā€¦ Although I wonā€™t be able to fit Bungee gum has the properties of both rubber and gum anymoreā€¦ Rip

Yoyoyo! Iā€™d like to deny those claims! I read this post multiple times, finished updating my game (also hint, once sharing is in, just use alts to circumvent 10 per monthā€¦ Seriously no creativity from you crowd!)! Itā€™s just I have experienced asset theft, and lemme tell you. Itā€™s horrible. You lose your work. And these people are complaining because some of their sounds are being deleted? Look, how many sounds in your game are actually 6 seconds plusā€¦ Mah, I get your point though, it is a giant pain, like a REALLY big pain. But the scale tips in favor of roblox for me this time!
Happy you donā€™t hate me though! :slight_smile:

Got any better alternative? Or are you just spreading hate?

Itā€™s like bruh, simply add another setting so there would then be this:

Public: On sale, available on the toolbox and can be used everywhere
Hidden: Offsale, canā€™t be found on the toolbox, but can be used everywhere (pretty much how offsale audios work now)
Private: Offsale, canā€™t be found on the toolbox and can only be used where the owner of the sound allows it to be set

Then Roblox would set currently offsale audios to Hidden. I personally believe this sort of approach would be much better, but I know itā€™s not gonna happen, and itā€™s agonizing thatā€™s obvious.

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Make sure to share this to others. [Action Needed] Upcoming Changes to Asset Privacy for Audio - #3283 by Zenogale

Note: I genuinally believe the third option has some useful solutions, I doubt they will do it though and itā€™s kind of already too late.

It has become quite obvious that the cause of this announcement was the lawsuit Roblox settled with the Music Publishers Association.

If you havenā€™t read the lawsuit you can read it here:

In the lawsuit, the MPA specifically alleges that Roblox is profiting from the sale and commission of copyrighted audio on its platform. Roblox never would have made audio uploads free for users on its own volition, they did it to resolve this specific dispute with the MPA.

Furthermore, the lawsuit specifically targets the audio library and ā€œBoomBoxā€ game passes which is likely why Roblox is removing the ability to publicly post audio on its platform. (Yes if you didnā€™t read the whole post not only is this change adding a private option for audio but removing the public option for audio ā€œuntil a better solution is foundā€).

All in all, it seems as though Roblox was finally forced to admit to its copyright problem, which is the right thing to do. However, Roblox has decided to handle this situation, not like a Multi-Billion dollar company, but like a lazy landlord. They have pushed nearly all the blowback onto developers without any plan of action or discourse to solve the issue gracefully. Instead, developers have basically been told that the user uploaded audio library is disappearing in 14 days, good luck, and oh by the way, you can only upload 10 audio clips for your game in order to fix this (unless of course you hand over private information or are somehow selected as being "special enough for 2000 uploads).

The new licensed audio also does nothing to help this situation as its nearly impossible to find the content you are looking for in the audio library. In fact the MPA even complained about this in the lawsuit as well while alleging Roblox does this to hide copyrighted music from publishers. If the MPA canā€™t find its own music in Robloxā€™s mess of an audio library how in the world are developers meant to find audio for their games on this same library.

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does it affect your ip address?

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