I don’t know maybe I missed that, but the lawsuit did say that roblox was to Permanently stop infringing on their copyright
c. For such equitable relief under Title 17, Title 28, and/or the Court’s
inherent authority as is necessary to prevent or restrain infringement of
Plaintiffs’ copyrights, including a permanent injunction requiring that
Roblox and its officers, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, directors,
successors, assigns, licensees, and all others in active concert or
participation with any of them, cease infringing, or causing, aiding,
enabling, facilitating, encouraging, promoting, inducing or materially
contributing to or participating in the infringement of any of Plaintiffs’
exclusive copyright rights, including without limitation in the musical
works listed on Exhibit A
Roblox and the National Music Publishers’ Association today announced an agreement that “settles any previous claims against Roblox and sets the foundation for future partnerships with global publishers that will unlock new creative and commercial opportunities on its platform,” according to the announcement.
Oh they made a new agreement, that’s cool. I hope they team up and make gets moderation less strict so we can stop being moderated for uploading harmless audios. The moderation won’t have to be as strong if there’s less copyright and lawsuits to worry about.
But, I did calculations. Lets say roblox has to pay 200m to 300 plaintiffs (probably not that much, but its an estimate). 200m/300 is 666,666.667, and that is how much money they would pay to each plaintiff. They would have about 87.9m dollars left, 88b - 200m, (if this calculation is wrong, im sorry as im not that good with making equations) and that is still enough moeny to keep the company growing! Plus, there are children who literally pay to get robux (kids who like flexing valks, slenders, you kind of get what type of kids im saying.).
I would think it would be the opposite. If they’ve agreed to allow no copyright infringement, they’ll have to crack down on users uploading mainstream music.
Upload a couple T swift songs and poof you’re gone.
There HAS to be some better way to go about this man. I’m a horror game developer and with all audios going mute I’m screwed. Please think this out a bit more carefully by taking the feedback from the community and fitting it in somewhere in this situation to balance things out a bit more. No audio means a massive loss in players, meaning in even more loss of money soon leading to going bankrupt. It’s something big, either you take our word in consideration too for once or you guys will become history.
Hmm, yes you are right. So, idk if this would be the same lawsuit or a previous one, at any rate, it shows they are looking to partner with the record labels. I just wish they’d figure it out without breaking so much stuff!
This is a horrible update! Think about this. Let’s say you developed a rhythm game, and all music in your game came from the catalog. Now imagine you play the game and then all of a sudden, everything is muted. The games that are affected by this terrible update are mainly games that use audio essentially. Some games (specifically horror games) have their immersion ruined due to missing audio. I get that the music companies are suing Roblox and stuff, but there has to be a better way to combat this rather than shutting the entire library down.
Thats what im saying! They dont take out opinions in consideration! There is a 1/1000000 chance that they would listen, and i’ll love to see roblox prove me wrong.
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bad solution
there are valid counterarguments to this, and it is still hotly debated
and its exploitable
yeah, lower pitched song, slap a pitchshifteffect and you basically have whatever audio you want
People are going to bypass audios like never before. Back then, people bought Robux to bypass audios. Now that doesn’t even needed to be done. It’s as simple as use an alt account to bypass the limit.
The audio privacy. I understand the lawsuit and that Roblox has to do something, but bruh. This is not the correct thing to do.
They also did a copyright audio sweep. This audio sweep falsely detected one of my audios as copyright, when the song is not copyrighted. This part is kind of off topic I understand, but it just comes to show how bad Roblox’s copyright detection system is, and that they can just improve it to easily solve this problem instead of this audio privacy update.
I don’t think Roblox will be going bankrupt any time soon
No matter how much people don’t like this update, I doubt that this will cause Roblox to lose more than they would’ve if they hadn’t pushed this update.
It was either give $200M to each of the plaintiffs involved in the class action lawsuit or cause mass disruption in the player and developer communities.
The only thing they can actually legally do now to make this update better is to give out more than 10 uploads a month to people who wish to not give their ID to a billion dollar company.
again, this update is fundamentally flawed
bypassing community will bypass more than they ever will and it is inevitable that they will find solutions to this
its inevitable and roblox is just speeding this inevitability up tenfold
the problem isnt spreading the copyrighted audio its using it in the first place
companies will put their grubby mud filled hands on wherever they feel is necessary
this will just make it tons worse
also they said you could make audios public
you know what that means!
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