Why isn't StepMania illegal?

[DFAx5]

i hope it survives forever
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check the StepMania 4.0 if you are interested in playing DDR over the internet

[A.....The song]

They need more evidence to convict, besides stepmania is cool.
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[LyNeX]

[trob xD]

I'm not entirely sure if it's legal or not...But put it this way:

1.) People play Stepmania for free
2.) People like the dancing game idea
3.) People buy Dance mats (Konami makes some money)
4.) People buy PS2 versions (Konami gets a little $)
5.) People get better at the dance games
6.) People move on to the arcade (Konami scores an assload of quarters)

So really Konami is getting a ton of free advertising from it. I know they've made their fair share of money off me....(That thing I just wrote explains it)

[xbskid]

[Syxx]

[Cutriss]

[azninsect]

A lil bit of a tangent here but I recently got wind of a school using Stepmania and two metal pads and have set up a ddr system. Apparenly they charge and right now im assuming theyre using official songs. I'm just wondering what the legalities of this are.
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[Tetris]

I am sure that KOA is aware of StepMania and Dance With Intensity, but since, technically, the artwork has completely been redesigned (doesn't say DDRMAX anymore, but SMMAX), it isn't violating any copyright issues.

It could be also violating copyright issues because all of the Production BGM of SM are the official DDR bgm, I guess it could be violating copyright issues.

Like I was saying, KOA is aware of StepMania, and since "the game is an open-source simulator" and it comes with no songs, the legallity of stepmania is totally dependat on you.


Tetris
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[mrfinnigan]

I don't know how much of a bump this is, and with near-useless contents too....

About the graphics: so Wikipedia is going to get sued now?


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[RBCF retunes]

Wikipedia has a strict fair use policy on images, but Stepmania is open source, so it's fine.
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[mrfinnigan]

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...It's not illegal because....

The songs are still given credit to the artists. And yes, it's increased the sales.

(I didn't read all the pages of this, please tell me if I'm missing something. )
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[kirbyrockz]

[AJAX the Insomniac]

Playing stepmania just makes you want to play the actual game on your feet, whether it be ITG or DDR so stepmania might as well be an advertisement for DDR.

[matteh]

[DAVE101]

[Nicknicholas]

In The Groove intellectual property is now owned by Konami. Roxxor made an out of court settlement. That is why their is no itg 2 home version, itg 3, and no new cabinets...

[Stumbleine]

Even if it was illegal I'm sure you could still download it. I mean downloading music is illegal but you can find torrents everywhere.
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[Stumbleine]

Even if it was illegal I'm sure you could still download it. I mean downloading music is illegal but you can find torrents everywhere.
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