Geometry Dash | Audio Piracy

As some of you may already know, Geometry Dash has become something of a problem to Newgrounds; the game uses songs that were published on Newgrounds. Why is this a problem? A whole new influx of idiots have joined Newgrounds for the sole purpose of publishing music from mainstream bands in the attempt to get these songs featured in the game. Usually the songs they like to publish are from shitty Dubstep bands, which is a crime unto itself but I digress.

Here is a thread dedicated to keeping track of these pirated songs. You can thank @LexaHergon for showing this to me.

By the way, when you go to report these stolen tracks, it's important to include evidence that these songs belong to offsite bands. You can, ironically, prove its stolen if you find the song on Youtube.

By the by, reporting stolen content yields a bigger reward than reporting abusive reviews.

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Exedor 2016-12-08 14:26:45

MOST of the time, youtube can provide a stolen link, but not always. Be sure you all check and don't just post a youtube link as soon as you find it.

Also, there is no difference between the types of reports; stolen vs abusive. :)

Psychopath 2016-12-08 14:26:45

Good to know.

Exedor 2016-12-08 14:28:14

...AND be sure you click that 'FLAG' icon and report it if you post it in the thread! THAT'S the way you get credit for reporting things!

Jackho 2016-12-08 14:55:09

I'll add that people shouldn't just start posting to the thread en mass, simply because there's not enough mods to keep up. There's stuff from weeks and weeks ago that's still not removed because it just gets drowned out.

Try to space out posts a bit and only do reasonably small quantities of songs per post so a mod seeing it should have time to clear the whole batch. If you post like 30 songs at once the entire bottom of your list will probably never get removed. There's no rules enforcing this or anything, it's just what I've observed through using the thread for a little while now. Huge lists are downright tiresome.

Also if anyone's not already familiar there's an app called shazam that can be invaluable in identifying songs, especially foreign language ones. But again, make sure to actually listen yourself and verify, as the app can make mistakes too when dealing with total obscurity. 99% of stolen songs are very easy to identify anyway.

Psychopath 2016-12-08 14:55:09

I'm surprised no one has uploaded One Winged Angel yet.

ThaliaSolari 2016-12-08 16:05:22

Maybe a way of getting more of these pirated songs is to make separate catagories for genr or type of piracy and get certain mods for each thread.

Idk just a thought

Demonic-Overmind 2016-12-11 05:51:12

Yeah, I'm already on it since a year, flagging and reporting stolen songs! all of those 12 year olds :/