It looks like my dream of flooding Guitar Hero World Tour's "GH Tunes" online sharing service with Christina Aguilera covers has been crushed. According to Neversoft's Brian Bright, if an infringing cover track appears online, it's Activision's duty to pull the content immediately.
"We'll be actively monitoring the site," he tells 1UP, "and, obviously, if the copyright holder complains, Activision will pull it down immediately. We can't condone people putting up covers of music. It's really there for original content."
But even if someone doesn't complain, the songs are getting the old yankeroonie anyhow, Bright clarifies. Like trolling YouTube for offending video content, I'd imagine there are going to be a lot of busy interns hitting up the "GH Tunes" store looking for my cover of Aguilera's "Fighter."
Guitar Hero World Tour offers a pretty impressive suite of music creation software, which -- as Bright points out -- should be great for musicians (and gamers) looking to create their own music. But many gamers had seen the Guitar Hero studio as a way to circumvent downloadable content; why buy Metallica's "Master of Puppets" when you can make your own? How does this, if at all, change the way you look at the service and the tools Neversoft are offering?
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9:22 AM on 09.29.2008
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but I'm sure that thing is going to have a ton of crap by kids who think they are l33t and just throw a bunch of random notes down to make it worse than Jordan Solo C.
In whipped cream.
I don't see how anyone could possibly NOT expect this. Obviously, if you put up covers of songs not legally available within the game, they're going to be taken down. Duh.
Oh? So it's meant to be fucking useless?
If you want to cover songs, mod your ps2 and play custom songs from scorehero...that's what I do :)
If not, expect some badass F-Zero covers from me once this is released. :D
I mean, seriously, THREE MINUTES!? You can't make a decent metal song THREE FUCKING MINUTES LONG!
granted, there's so many songs I can use rockwise anyway, I'd figure I'd sneak in some of those awesome remix game music if still possible.
and yes...what about Jpop/Jrock? that doesn't count no?