Putting a song in Warcraft 3 - Illegal?

[Bartimaeus]

Well, I just thought about this...after having about six quadrillion arguments with the entire Staff here...would it be illegal to put a song, (one that you can only get by buying at a store, or finding it illegally), in a map, and host it on Battle.Net, thus giving the song to other people, which would be the same as giving them a copy of a burned disk?

 

[Videosurfer101]

What kind of question is that? Of course it's illegal.

 

[Bartimaeus]

What kind of question is that? Of course it's illegal.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

People got other methods to gain music, nobody is thát stupid to get songs from Wc3 maps.

 

[LordDz]

Don't think so, I mean I haven't heard anything of Kodo Tag being sued for having linking park in it..

 

[Mechanical Man]

Putting a song in a multiplayer map is a waste of space.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Putting a music is as illegal as putting a music to a video and then uploading it to youtube. We are doing illegal things all the time without even knowing it. But these things are just minor... And I think it's not a bad thing.

 

[Avex]

If it was illegal it'd pretty much almost be 99% pointless to add a Sound Editor.

 

[~Void~]

Maybe technically, but to be entirely honest, nobody really cares

 

[Lohengrin]

*downloads entire discographies*

 

[Dr Super Good]

Pointless, as most songs even in mp3 form are over 4 megabytes. Unless you want to distribute very low quality ones.

 

[Eleandor]

If it was illegal it'd pretty much almost be 99% pointless to add a Sound Editor.

Buddy, it IS illegal.

It's just that nobody is going to bother suing someone for using a song in a small meaningless mod for a game... If they could sue someone anonymous behind a nickname in the first place.

Besides, there are songs and sound effects that are royalty free... It's like saying the import manager is useless because 99% of the models you'll find on the internet or other 3d games can't be used in warcraft. That fact doesn't make the other 1% of models on e.g. the hive useless...

 

[~Void~]

Technically it's illegal, but it's so insignificant that nobody would ever bother doing anything about it.