Re: Pirated sound effects in this community.
OK, so first of all, its not hard to distinguish sounds from each other nowadays. Have you ever heard of Audio Watermarking? Its a technique to embed signals into an audio file which cannot be heard by human-kind, but will be transfered from file to file, it doesn't matter if its recorded over the air or mixed together with multiple sounds. It is even possible to get the audio watermarks of all 5 sounds if you created a sound out of 5 separate sounds. Thats the current industry-standard of protecting sounds and music from copying, remixing etc. If someone is curious, the company can just download your video/music track/game whatever, check in with the audio watermark detector and see if your specific sound was used in the process. The only exception is if you really hard resample and disturb it, which might end up destroying the watermark or at least make it unrecognizeable. But to be true, you nowadays want clear and polished sound, no garbled stuff which sounds like out of a broken trashcan.
Yes, it might be true that those sites allow you to download and keep those files forever, private copyright law and such stuff, noone will blame you for having all those sounds you like flying around on your private hard drive. What will actually become a problem if you're using them in a production without having a subscription to the service anymore, because that is the moment when people will become angry.
Don't get me wrong though. Sound Producers usually won't pay money to track you down and file documents against you if you aren't making any money with your product. Thats probably the reason why noone ever aggressively contacted Oriol Gomez for his massive use of deffinitely stolen sounds in e.g. Mush-Z, or the guys from Crazy Party, because it simply wouldn't pay off. But as soon as you start releasing paid products and start making a bit money out of it, you might actually end up getting into trouble.
Best Regards.
Hijacker
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