We have yet to see an actual reply from Roblox staff regarding the massive backlash.
Godot is looking real good right now, just saying.
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It is possible that even models and meshes will get this update.
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Oh no. Roblox doomsday is nearby-
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The privatising wonât be forced on the Models, Meshes & Animations, pretty sure it will be optional atleast. If they force it on them aswell, then everyone might aswell take their bags with whatâs left and move out of Roblox. I have over 250 Audios to reupload, thatâs over 2 years of uploading and the fact that Alts are useless for 2 reasons: Canât use Audios created by others. Audios Created by Group Owners/Devs instead of the Group wonât count either.
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This is such a bad update, I donât think I even need to explain why.
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Yeah. And for the lawsuit thing. Roblox can/should be able to easily win this because they as a corporation wernât responsible for uploading the copyrighted music. The users did. Roblox does have a repeat infringer policy. Roblox should be able to claim for âsafe harborâ protection under the DMCA. The same thing happened when Viacom sued Youtube back in 2009. Youtube won for falling under safe harbor.
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This has been said countless times but this is unacceptable.
Since not only will this count for audios, it will also count for different types of assets in the future.
Roblox is spitting on developers more and more with all of these crap updatesâŚ
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While I still do not like this update, I wonât quit or go on strike. I am not about to learn how to use another engine. Weâll just have to get used to it. Remember COPPA and dislikes being removed and how everyone complained about it then git used to it after about a month. People threatening to quit isnât new and happens all the time. Zeke and Luther, Robloxian 2.0, Clothing fee, Rthro and it goes on and on.
Iâm gonna be real here; No one cares about you leaving. No one cares about you going on strike, they wonât change the update and youâll just have to deal with it.
This @writejsk (phire/PhireFox) video from 2013 still holds up pretty well with my point: I'm Quitting ROBLOX (A Funny Roblox Machinima by Phire) - YouTube
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roblox what on earth are you doing
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While this update has the potential to solve some sound related problems, i think it limits the âsharingâ and community part of roblox; also if i understand correctly, this will break all boomboxes and their respective gamepasses, removing once another of roblox nostalgic features.
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Then again, Roblox moderation is a lot worse than Youtubeâs, so maybe that would give the music companies a claimâŚ
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How on earth are licensees even supposed to prove they own the license to music to use in their game?
There is no way to do this with roblox.
How are we meant to prove that we own the license to a track to play in our game without being able to link anything in its description?
If we canât provide the license with the audio, then there is ZERO way to license music legitemately.
Include a way to provide licenses.
If you want to be taken seriously as a game engine there is no way this can be done.
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No one cares about you leaving. No one cares about you going on strike, they wonât change the update and youâll just have to deal with it.
if there are enough people that leave they will for sure care, what is with your attitude?
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Title II of the DMCA is called the Online Copyright Infringement Limited Liability Actâotherwise known as the Safe Harbor Provision. This provision limits the liability of an Internet service provider for user-created copyright infringement so that the company itself is not at fault for a random comment someone posts.
I do have to admit I am no lawyer, but it sure does seem like ROBLOX has the power to fight back against these lawsuits. They are already proactive about copyright, sometimes too much; this just seems like they donât want to risk the money to contest these claims and rather punish the developers.
If we, the people of this platform, just adapt and overcome this update, it will be a message to ROBLOX. One that tells them we can be pushed around. They already plan to push this update to separate areas, like Meshes. If we do not actively go against these changes in a way that impacts them, they will keep making horrible decisions in the benefit of their purses at the expense of our experience.
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According to me, the best update for small developers who are dying of curiosity that how to upload music but at the same time it is the worst update for large-scale developers!
I think it really depends on how many uploads you get; itâs unclear how they are settled.
For example, I have 10 per month.
If I make anything new, itâs going to have to be extremely limitedâŚ
i wonder if theyâve actually worked to help anyone yet
i would assume not
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Even if someone has 2000 uploads, an audio can take more than 10 hours to get past the review (thatâs what I have gathered so far, perhaps even moreâŚ) after this update.
Before it took a maximum of a few minutes, always less than 8-9 for me.
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Well, I think that this Update is not that good for the Roblox Developer Community, since we all worked hard on getting these Audios and SFXâs to use them in our Games and Projects. Iâm pretty sure that Roblox had no other choise, because so many Developers are using Copyrighted music which is totally unacceptable. If Iâd be a Music Producer and a Roblox Game Developer would upload it into the Roblox Catalog that many people are using it, Iâd have no other choise than sueing Roblox. So many Music Producer are in the exact same Situation and really need to get this type of ,behaivor, of many devs in a way reduced. I hope that this Update will get us more safety in the Audio and SFX section.
â I also hate the Update, because I need some time to get new Audios right now. But itâs a good step for Roblox itself to get away from this type of ,Violations,
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10 per month for some? Thatâs only 120 a year, imagine a developer trying to make an FPS Game with this. Itâs not going to work out, this update has more bad than good
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